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Sorry to be pedantic, but all bodies in bound orbits do so around each other. Perhaps you meant that the center of mass of the Pluto-Charon system is outside Pl
by ngoldbaum 11y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but all bodies in bound orbits do so around each other. Perhaps you meant that the center of mass of the Pluto-Charon system is outside Pluto's surface, so from afar they appear to be rotating around a point in space between the two bodies.
- icefox 11y agoAnd as we are talking about it do both of them really just orbit around the sun, but the local gravity cause them to oscillation where one is closer to the sun before swapping? Locally it only looks like they are orbiting a spot in space?
- gizmo686 11y agoReally, Pluto, Charon, and the Sun are all just orbiting Sagittarius A* , the center of our galaxy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*