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Earth-Moon Center of Mass The Earth has a mass of 5.98 × 1024 kg, the Moon has a mass of 7...

Earth-Moon Center of Mass The Earth has a mass of 5.98 × 1024 kg, the Moon has a mass of 7.35 × 1022 kg, and their center-to-center distance is 3.85 × 108 m. How far from the center of the Earth is the Earth-Moon center of mass? Is the Earth-Moon center of mass above or below the surface of the Earth? By what distance? (As the Earth and Moon orbit one another, their centers orbit about their common center of mass.)

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