Saturday, 23 November 2024

Wobble

Our world, the Earth isn't  going around the sun smoothly on its axis, it actually wobbles. 


~ image generated by artificial intelligence (wonder) 

The reason the Earth wobbles is because the centre of gravity between the Earth and the moon isn't in the centre of the Earth, it is a shifting point below the Earth's surface called the Barycentre. The Earth and the moon both orbit the Barycentre, a common center of gravity between the two objects.