Lagrangian Points

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4478. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Five neutral points (points at which an object experiences no net gravitational force), in the combined gravitational field of two massive bodies which are orbiting their center of mass, at which an object of much smaller mass can exist in equilibrium. They are so named because Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1772 was the first to find them as solutions to a restricted case of the three-body problem. Th...

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