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To: longshadow
Nasa says an interplanetary superhighway discovered by one of its engineers will make space travel simpler.

And we don't even have one from Hawaii to the mainland.

BTW, aren't those Lagrange points full of meteors and such?

11 posted on 07/18/2002 4:34:08 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
Probably. From what I understand the point of balance between the Earth and the Moon is full of dust and such.
12 posted on 07/18/2002 4:35:27 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: VadeRetro
BTW, aren't those Lagrange points full of meteors and such?

The Trojan asteroids are at two of the Sun-Jupiter libration points.

17 posted on 07/18/2002 4:38:22 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: VadeRetro
BTW, aren't those Lagrange points full of meteors and such?

That would make sense. Like the dead zone in a lagoon fills with trash.

69 posted on 07/18/2002 5:49:12 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: VadeRetro; RadioAstronomer; Physicist; ThinkPlease
BTW, aren't those Lagrange points full of meteors and such?

I shouldn't think so; now, this is conjecture on my part, and I'll assume RA or some other knowledgeable FReeper will correct me if I'm mistaken, but I assume that the Lagrange points are unstable, in the sense that any minor displacement away from the EXACT point of gravitational balance results in an ever greater gravitational displacement force on an object, NOT a restoring force. IOW, it's like a "saddle" point: there is an equilibrium, but it's dynamically unstable. Any pertubation will cause the object to drift away unless something actively counter-acts the displacement. Hence, I would conclude there shouldn't be much space debris floating about at the Lagrange points.....

93 posted on 07/18/2002 7:26:04 PM PDT by longshadow
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