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[โ€“] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I guess they all orbit around the solar system's center of mass (negligibly affected by the universal CoM), but that CoM probably moves around as the planets themselves move.

Relative to what, you might ask? That depends who you're asking ๐Ÿ˜‰