Definitions for barycenter
ba·rycen·ter

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1. barycenternoun

   (astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve

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1. barycenternoun

   The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal

   the Earth-Moon barycenter

2. barycenternoun

   The centroid, the geometric center of a plane figure

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1. Barycenter

   In astronomy, the barycenter (or barycentre; from Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús) 'heavy', and κέντρον (kéntron) 'center') is the center of mass of two or more bodies that orbit one another and is the point about which the bodies orbit. A barycenter is a dynamical point, not a physical object. It is an important concept in fields such as astronomy and astrophysics. The distance from a body's center of mass to the barycenter can be calculated as a two-body problem. If one of the two orbiting bodies is much more massive than the other and the bodies are relatively close to one another, the barycenter will typically be located within the more massive object. In this case, rather than the two bodies appearing to orbit a point between them, the less massive body will appear to orbit about the more massive body, while the more massive body might be observed to wobble slightly. This is the case for the Earth–Moon system, whose barycenter is located on average 4,671 km (2,902 mi) from Earth's center, which is 75% of Earth's radius of 6,378 km (3,963 mi). When the two bodies are of similar masses, the barycenter will generally be located between them and both bodies will orbit around it. This is the case for Pluto and Charon, one of Pluto's natural satellites, as well as for many binary asteroids and binary stars. When the less massive object is far away, the barycenter can be located outside the more massive object. This is the case for Jupiter and the Sun; despite the Sun being a thousandfold more massive than Jupiter, their barycenter is slightly outside the Sun due to the relatively large distance between them.In astronomy, barycentric coordinates are non-rotating coordinates with the origin at the barycenter of two or more bodies. The International Celestial Reference System (ICRS) is a barycentric coordinate system centered on the Solar System's barycenter.

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1. barycenter

   The barycenter is the center of mass of two or more bodies that are orbiting each other, or the point around which they both orbit. It is the point where the mass of these bodies is balanced. In simple terms, it's the common center of gravity that two or more celestial bodies (like planets and their moons or binary star systems) orbit around.

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   The numerical value of barycenter in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

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   The numerical value of barycenter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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