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It is common knowledge that the Sun is the center of the Solar System. Around him, planets orbit, along with a thick asteroid belt, a few meteor fields, and a handful of far distant comets. But that is not the whole story. “Instead, everything orbits around the center of mass …

When you imagine the Solar System in your head, most people think of the Sun, motionless and stationary in the center, with everything else buzzing around it. But each body in the Solar System also exerts its own gravitational pull on the star, causing it to move only slightly. Therefore, …