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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It says it's so massive they orbit a common point. That directly implies this only happens over a certain mass.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It says it's so massive they orbit a common point outside the sun. Smaller planets don't have their common point outside the sun.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's the way I understood it at first. But after reading it again after reading the comments above, I can see the other way of viewing it. I do agree with you that how the sentence is currently written it's confusing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah pretty much my point. I know you can maybe kinda construe it into the truth if you already know about the topic, like other commenters age saying, but it's presented as educational, and does a poor job at educating with how misleadingly it is phrased.

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