# Finding centroid of spherical triangle

Given three vectors $u,v,w\in S^2$, and a spherical triangle $[u,v,w]$, find its centroid, i.e. the point of intersection of the three medians $\left[u, \frac{v+w}{|v+w|}\right]$, $\left[v, \frac{u+w}{|u+w|}\right]$ and $\left[w, \frac{u+v}{|u+v|}\right]$.

The problem is that I don't even know how to approach this problem at all, the reason being that I'm not sure how to derive equations for the three medians. Your help would be much appreciated.

Assuming that $A,B,C$ are three points on a unit sphere centered at $O$, we may join $A$ with the midpoint $M_A$ of the $BC$ side in the spherical triangle $ABC$. The plane through $A,M_A,O$ meets the $ABC$ plane at a line $\ell_A$, the plane through $B,M_B,O$ meets the $ABC$ plane at a line $\ell_B$. Assuming that $\ell_A$ and $\ell_B$ meet at $G$ in the $ABC$ plane, the spherical centroid of the spherical triangle $ABC$ is just the intersection between the $OG$ ray and the original sphere, i.e. $\frac{G}{\left\|G\right\|}$.
It follows that you just need to compute the (planar) centroid of the euclidean triangle $ABC$, since the $OM_A$ ray meets the $BC$ segment at its midpoint on so on.
Long story short, the answer is just given by $\color{red}{\frac{u+v+w}{\left\|u+v+w\right\|}}$, since the spherical medians are given by the central projections of the medians of the planar triangle $ABC$.