Assertion: planet's satellite | /r/CapableOf | orbit planet
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text: Where one body is much more massive than the other (as is the case of an artificial satellite orbiting a planet), it is a convenient approximation to take the center of mass as coinciding with the center of the more massive body.
text: The differential equations of motion for a body under the central inverse square gravitational force (for a planet orbiting a star or a satellite orbiting the planet) have exact analytic solutions (a single-body Kepler problem).
text: If the heavier body is much more massive than the smaller, as in the case of a satellite or small moon orbiting a planet or for the Earth orbiting the Sun, it is accurate enough and convenient to describe the motion in terms of a coordinate system that is centered on the heavier body, and we say that the lighter body is in orbit around the heavier.
text: The specific example discussed is of a satellite orbiting a planet, but the rules of thumb could also apply to other situations, such as orbits of small bodies around a star such as the Sun.
text: planets and satellites Planets, dwarf planets and plutoids orbit the Sun, satellites orbit the planets.