The Arbelos 3

The figure below is an Arbelos, which means shoemaker's knife in Greek. Segment BD is constructed perpendicular to diameter AC at B. A circle is constructed with BD as the diameter. Drag the BLUE points in the figure below. Which property of an Arbelos is suggested by the sketch? Yes! The line that is tangent to the two lower circles passes through the center of the circle.

 

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