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> If they don't know that the Earth is smaller than the Sun, then how can they understand that the Earth is a satellite of the Sun? These facts are independent
by jeffbarr 16y ago
> If they don't know that the Earth is smaller than the Sun, then how can they understand that the Earth is a satellite of the Sun?
These facts are independent.
- Locke1689 16y agoNot really. Whether or not a system is a satellite relationship is based on their comparative masses and orbits. If the Sun where the less massive we would refer to it as the satellite (well, there would be a lot more consequences, but that's one). If the objects were approximately equal we would call it a binary system with the more massive being referred to as the primary.