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The moons wander azimuthally about the Lagrange points, with Polydeuces describing the largest deviations, moving up to 32° away from the Saturn–Dione L 5 point. One version of the giant impact hypothesis postulates that an object named Theia formed at the Sun–Earth L 4 or L 5 point and crashed into Earth after its orbit destabilized ...
A diagram showing the five Lagrange points in a two-body system. Sun–Earth Lagrange points. Sun–Earth L 1. L 1 is the Lagrange point located approximately 1.5 ...
English: Diagram of Lagrange points in a system where the primary is much more massive than the secondary (e.g. Sun–Earth). Date 5 February 2007 (upload date)
Lagrange point colonization is a proposed form of space colonization [1] of the five equilibrium points in the orbit of a planet or its primary moon, called Lagrange points. The Lagrange points L 4 and L 5 are stable if the mass of the larger body is at least 25 times the mass of the secondary body. [2] [3] Thus, the points L 4 and L 5 in the ...
A halo orbit is a periodic, three-dimensional orbit associated with one of the L 1, L 2 or L 3 Lagrange points in the three-body problem of orbital mechanics.Although a Lagrange point is just a point in empty space, its peculiar characteristic is that it can be orbited by a Lissajous orbit or by a halo orbit.
A diagram showing the five Lagrangian points in a two-body system, with one body far more massive than the other (e.g. Earth and Moon). In this system L 3 –L 5 will appear to share the secondary's orbit, although they are situated slightly outside it.
This diagram was created with an unknown SVG tool. ... Description=Sun-planet Lagrange points assuming circular orbits and pairs are taken individually, ...
In the special case of the circular restricted three-body problem, these solutions, viewed in a frame rotating with the primaries, become points called Lagrangian points and labeled L 1, L 2, L 3, L 4, and L 5, with L 4 and L 5 being symmetric instances of Lagrange's solution.