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inventor | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You're not addressing the question. 
the moons of Jupiter orbit Jupiter, not the Earth. Making part of the universe not Earth-centric at least.
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Sovereign Bear | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There are "moons" that appear to orbit around other celestial bodies. The main celestial bodies all appear to orbit around the Earth though. La Grange point probes made the same observations... 3 times. Earth is at the centre of it all.

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inventor | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Therefore you accept that at least not everything in the universe is earth-centric.
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Sovereign Bear | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 All observations ever made would disagree with that assertion, but roll with that.
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inventor | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don't think we're talking the same. 
If a moon orbits Jupiter, and Jupiter orbits Earth (somehow), then the moon, let's say Europa is orbiting Jupiter directly, not Earth. 
It would go around the Earth only indirectly, thanks to Jupiter. 

Is that clear? The "CENTER" for that moon, Europa, is Jupiter. It's a Jupter-centric orbit. 
And you said that's the case.
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Sovereign Bear | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yet even though that moon is orbiting Jupiter, it is still orbiting the earth on a larger scale, since it follows Jupiter in its orbit around the earth.
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inventor | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 To that moon, to whoever is living there (if there's anyone living there), they are orbiting Jupiter. 

What matters here is the definition of the word "orbit". The curly salad drawing that you presented is not orbits.

Europa going around Jupiter is an orbit. A simple, curved line around another larger object.