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According to Newton's third law, two objects interacting under a force (such as gravity) both feel the same force. If the planets pull on the Sun as much as the Sun pulls on the planets, why are we able to approximate the Sun as a fixed position when studying the planetary orbits?

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Step-by-step explanation:

That's because the Sun's acceleration is much smaller

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