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The way this is phrased makes it sound like there’s a certain threshold where this starts happening. That’s not right. Even a grain of dust wouldn’t orbit the sun, they still orbit their common barycenter. A less misleading way of phrasing would be that Jupiter is massive enough that the barycenter of it and the sun actually lies outside the sun, which is still a cool fun fact.
Orbiting a point within the sun is still orbiting the sun.
But orbiting a point 1 meter outside the sun is not orbiting the sun?
The sun isn’t a perfect sphere.
Kinda feels intuitively correct
Related: https://xkcd.com/2898/
Jokes aside : being right for the wrong reasons is being wrong
i mean, with that logic, nothing orbits anything
