hey friends it is well known that orbit of a planet is elliptical and this is also known that an elliptical has two centres so my question is who is at the another focii because at one centre sun is located so what is there?
samikshasingh224:
actually its true that sun's original position is not known but we can't say there is nothing
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Actually the sun is not on any of the focii of the ellipse. May be it will be of some planets but not all. And there's nothing at the other focus.
Actually, given two massive bodies, their "difference" vector will trace out an ellipse with the center of mass at the focus. Because the sun is so much more massive than most of the planets, we can usually disregard this since the center of mass is located within the sun itself
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