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Two stars in a binary system orbit around their center of mass. The centers of the two stars are 7.38×1011 m apart. The larger of the two stars has a mass of 3.60×1030 kg, and its center is 1.91×1011 m from the system's center of mass. What is the mass of the smaller star?

Two stars in a binary system orbit around their center of mass. The centers of the two stars are 7.38×1011 m apart. The larger of the two stars has a mass of 3.60×1030 kg, and its center is 1.91×1011 m from the system's center of mass. What is the mass of the smaller star?

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Two stars in a binary system orbit around their center of mass. The centers of the two stars are 7.38 × 10 11 m apart. The larger of the two stars has a mass of 3.60 × 10 30 k g , and its center is 1.91 × 10 11 m from the system's center of mass. What is the mass of the smaller star? i ◻ ◻

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