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How does the orbital motion of reduced mass tell us how the individual planets/stars move?

To give context to my question, here is Kepler's first Law restated in terms of reduced mass. Here, $\vec{r}$ is the position vector of the reduced mass whose origin lies at the centre of mass of the ...
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