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If the earth and the moon each had the same mass, they would rotate about acommon center of mass that would lie halfway between the two. But because theearth’s mass is roughly 80 times that of the moon the common center of rotationis inside the earth about 1600 km below the surface along a line from the moonto the earth. The rotation of the two bodies about this point is illustrated in Fig. 7.02(a). As the moon moves around this center of mass, the earth also movesaround it in a circle with a radius equal to the distance between the center of massof the earth and the center of mass of the two bodies. The curved lines drawnthrough the center of the earth and the point Aillustrate that every point in theearth moves in a circle of similar radius. Because all particles in the earth are moving in circles of identical size, the centripetal force must be the same for everyparticle. The direction of this force is always toward the moon, which is also towardthe center of the circle described by the particle (Fig. 7.02b).
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