Astronomy Today Volume 1: The Solar System (9th Edition)
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Author: Eric Chaisson, Steve McMillan
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Chapter 2, Problem 13D
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To explain: The reason that it is said that a baseball falls toward the Earth, and not Earth toward the baseball.
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