[extropy-chat] Re: SPACE: new planet?

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Don Dartfield <twodeel at jornada.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> 
> > The distortion of Earth's orbit does not exceed the boundaries even
> of
> > the earth's core. The center of angular momentum is only a few
> meters
> > from the center of the earth, or so I've heard.
> 
> I thought it was almost 4,900km from the center of the earth.  Or is
> that 
> just the center of gravity?

Perhaps we have a problem with terms here. What would you call the
point which both earth and the moon orbit around?

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