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Re: (meteorobs) phantom-orbits
At 09:25 PM 2/20/00 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2/20/00 6:38:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>dhostetter@eateldot net writes:
>
><< I wonder if this could be a reference to placing spacecraft (or even
> colonies) at the LaGrange points of the Earth-moon system. There's been
> talk of that from time to time, although I do not recall hearing of any
> spacecraft actually planned for that type of thing. It's my understanding
> that a spacecraft very near a LaGrange point would move in a non-circular
> orbit around the actual LaGrange point itself, which would have no mass. >>
>
>
Here's a discussion of Lagrangian points, with better pictures than I can
make!
http://map.gsfc.nasadot gov/html/lagrange.html
JB
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