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> Actually everything gravitates around everything else, as the article also explains. What helped me understand it the most was an answer to this question: "
by rolltiide 7y ago
> Actually everything gravitates around everything else, as the article also explains.
What helped me understand it the most was an answer to this question:
"Where does the Solar System end"
"When the dominant gravitational influence is not the Sun"
it seems like it is always a loaded question because it is relative to the body being talked about and not its own moons, but it really just comes down to gravitational influence.
- matt-attack 7y agoLet’s say all the planets’ orbits decayed and ultimately spiraled into the sun. Wouldn’t that be a possible end to the solar system? I mean it’s just be a sun at that point. But I think the Sun would still be the dominant gravitation force.
- rolltiide 7y agoWould require all asteroids, debris and everything in the ort cloud to be in it too, which would be impossible. But honestly not sure what semantic nuance you are playing devil’s advocate on