OK… in refreshing my knowledge, I’m guessing the location of the barycenter is the deciding factor here… One just hope that the “official” definition, when agreed upon, is more exhaustive than that quoted in the article in order to make that clear….    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Message From Scott “Pluto Hayta” Westerfeld « Whatever] Reference

The barycenter is itself the center of that orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluton? « Whatever] Reference

The oxygen sits near the barycenter of the tetrahedron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quantum Hyperion] Reference

Even if we accept this as true, the barycenter of this relationship is far closer to the writer than to the reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Authors Know About Their Characters « Whatever] Reference

You could even build a bridge between them – just park a satellite in the barycenter and start extending in both directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluton? « Whatever] Reference

Ditto if someone should spot a pair of Jupiter-sized objects orbitting one another with a barycenter between them around some distant star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwarf Planets « Whatever] Reference

With Luna slowly pulling away from Earth, it will eventually meet the external barycenter requirement and thus become a planet in its own right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluton? « Whatever] Reference

The individuals of the population all exist in a relatively small locus in gene space, as a cloud of data points---obviously, with a barycenter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teach the Controversy] Reference

As the generations pass by, it is rather obvious that the barycenter will drift in a nonrandom direction if the differentials are not "symmetric" around it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teach the Controversy] Reference

Assuming the apahelion was high enough, it would have been a planet during the distant part of its orbit, and a moon during the close approach, as the barycenter moved up and down with the elliptical orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluton? « Whatever] Reference

In fact, if they were to drop the requirement that the barycenter exist in the open space between the two objects, three moons would have to be reclassed as planets as well – Luna, Callisto (Jupiter) and Iapetus (Saturn).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluton? « Whatever] Reference

Secondly, imagine them not simply floating semi-idly but rather orbiting an apparent barycenter, like an underwater solar system of satellite hatcheries revolving around a feeder sphere from which nutrients ooze out and are fling outwards towards awaiting hungry fishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aquapod®] Reference

It is not the Earth, but the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system, that orbits the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

↑ The Earth and the Moon orbit each other around a gravitational midpoint called the barycenter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

AND, as if there couldn't be any more coincidences, the barycenter of ALL planets in our solar system, will be in alignment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

"Because two bodies mutually revolve about their barycenter, Newton knew he had to modify Kepler's third law to take this into account.".    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

The radius of the Earth is 6,378 kilometers, so that means that the barycenter is located INSIDE the Earth about 1707 kilometers below its surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Charon's status, as a dwarf planet or as a satellite, is still ambiguous according to the barycenter of the Pluto-Charon orbit is outside of the surfaces of both planets.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlueOregon] Reference

Although the Moon is often described as revolving around the Earth, this is slightly inaccurate: the Earth and the Moon both revolve around their barycenter, their common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

At full moon nights, the earth is slightly closer to the sun because the majority of it is on the sun side of the barycenter (common balance point of the earth-moon system).    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

The classic gravitational equation, derived from the theory of gravity of Sir Isaac Newton, gives the total dynamical mass in any system that is inside the orbit of any given body (for example, a particular star in its galaxy): where R is the distance of the body from the barycenter, v is the orbital speed of that body, and G is the gravitational constant.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Lab Lemming – the barycenter doesn’t move around the elliptical orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluton? « Whatever] Reference

Say “barycenter” to the average person and they’ll think you mean a cemetary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans Barely Pass Science Quiz - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

It would depend on the average location of the barycenter – if it’s mostly within one of the objects, the other is a moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluton? « Whatever] Reference

If we go down this route, soon people will be calling the Earth-Moon system a double-planet – the earth-moon barycenter is a mere 1700 km below earth’s surface, after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

If we go down this route, soon people will be calling the Earth-Moon system a double-planet — the earth-moon barycenter is a mere 1700 km below earth’s surface, after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wherein I argue emotionally about the definition of "planet" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Why the barycenter idea is idiotic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pluton? « Whatever] Reference

1,000 miles below Earth's surface, aka the barycenter.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference

14 hr 47 min ago, -0/+9The barycenter Earth-Moon system (or Terra-Luna if you prefer) is located about 1700 km below the surface of the Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference