Comment on Finding the World's Economic Center of GravityparentComments−jofer12yThat's exactly how it's done, for what it worth (though you use 3D cartesian coordinates instead of spherical coordinates).Treat each point on the sphere as a 3D unit vector, weight as appropriate, and the center of mass is the sum of all of the vectors.
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That's exactly how it's done, for what it worth (though you use 3D cartesian coordinates instead of spherical coordinates).
Treat each point on the sphere as a 3D unit vector, weight as appropriate, and the center of mass is the sum of all of the vectors.