To: Aevery_Freeman
The Trojan asteroids are trapped gravitationally at Jupiter’s LaGrange points (L4 and L5). These points are stable against small perturbations, which would normally cause them to drift away. There are 5 LaGrange points, but only L4 and L5 are stable in three dimensions, The others are quasi-stable, or stable in 2 dimensions only.
12 posted on
02/22/2014 2:51:39 PM PST by
lagrange point1
(Space is no longer the final frontier)
To: lagrange point1
I can’t possibly imagine you knowing the first thing regarding LaGrange points.
Geesh....
17 posted on
02/22/2014 6:45:54 PM PST by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: lagrange point1; ALASKA; ActionNewsBill; A knight without armor; albertp; aragorn; areafiftyone; ...
Posted for the inquiring mind..
( http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/f-lagrange.html )
18 posted on
02/23/2014 5:04:24 AM PST by
Las Vegas Dave
(The democRATic party preys on the ignorant..!)
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