(ELI5) What is the center of gravity?
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The center of gravity is essentially the same thing as the center of mass.
If you have some spherical object with the same density in it, the center of mass will be in the middle. But if say the left side is heavier than the right side, that center of mass will be more on the left side than the right.
When you are dealing with gravity all mass will pull slightly towards them, but doing all these calculations is impossible. So what you do instead of calculate the center of mass, and you can mathematically prove that the calculations for gravity end up the same if ALL the mass was just located at the center of mass, instead of being spread all over the place.
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