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Newton's Estimates of Object Masses & Distances
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[QUOTE="John Park, post: 5714552, member: 616032"] As long as the orbiting body is much less massive than the central body (e.g. the Moon about the Earth to a fair approximation; any planet about the sun) the size and shape of the orbit don't depend on how massive the lighter body is. [/QUOTE]
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