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Old 15-04-2009, 05:48 PM
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Diameter, not radius

Hi Jay

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Originally Posted by Jay-qu View Post
This gives the jupiter sun system a centre of mass of ~740 thousand km from the centre of the sun. This may sound like a lot, but the sun has a radius of 1.4 million km, so the centre of mass is well inside the sun.

1.4 million km is the Sun's diameter, not radius -- but I don't think it makes much difference to your calculation (which looks okay to me).


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Les D
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