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What is point mass ?

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A " positn mass" has no internal structure like shape and size . Mathematically it has finite mass with zero dimension .
In the motion of Earth with respect to Sun, Earth is treated as a point mass. This is because the distance between the Sum and Earth is very large compared to the size of the Earth .
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