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Re:An Orbit Map of the Solar System by twic on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @05:37AM (#20163049)
Before we understood that the planets orbit the sun (more or less), astronomers thought they orbited the earth, and tried to explain these paths using epicycles - note the diagram halfway down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle

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Re:An Orbit Map of the Solar System by jacobush on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:07AM (#20163153)
... which always make me think of my limited understanding of string theory. :-)

(Which can be summed up into "something something resonance something something dimensions".)

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