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    This is a list of known objects which occupy, have occupied, or are planned to occupy any of the five Lagrange points of two-body systems in space. L1...
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    mechanics, the Lagrange points (/ləˈɡrɑːndʒ/; also Lagrangian points or libration points) are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects under the gravitational...
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    Lissajous orbit List of objects at Lagrange points Tadpole orbit Robutel, Philippe; Souchay, Jean (2010), "An introduction to the dynamics of trojan asteroids"...
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  • astronauts are listed), objects in the Sun–Earth Lagrange points or objects that are escaping from the Solar System. The Federal government of the United...
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    orbit List of objects at Lagrange points List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System List of lunar probes Lunar Roving Vehicles List of extraterrestrial...
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    Lagrange at the Mathematics Genealogy Project The Founders of Classical Mechanics: Joseph Louis Lagrange The Lagrange Points Derivation of Lagrange's...
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    comets and near-Earth objects. Many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) have been discovered; in many cases their positions in this list are approximate, as...
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    particular use of Lagrange points as locations where trajectories through space can be redirected using little or no energy. These points have the peculiar...
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    other astronomical objects. For hypothetical astronomical objects in the Solar System, see: List of hypothetical Solar System objects For hypothetical stars...
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    Italian-French mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange in his presentation to the Turin Academy of Science in 1760 culminating in his 1788 grand opus...
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    Lunar orbit (category Orbit of the Moon)
    together with one of the Earth-Moon Lagrange points, as employed by lunar relay satellites to the far side of the Moon, the first of such kind being the...
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    Deep Space Climate Observatory (category Artificial satellites at Earth-Sun Lagrange points)
    February 2015, and reached L1 on 8 June 2015, joining the list of objects orbiting at Lagrange points. NOAA operates DSCOVR from its Satellite and Product...
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    closest to Jupiter's orbit (i.e. at their aphelion) just when either one of Jupiter's L5, L4 or L3 Lagrange points arrives there. On their next orbit...
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    called the L4 and L5 Lagrange points. The first asteroids trapped in Lagrange points were observed more than a century after Lagrange's hypothesis. Those...
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    environment. Kinematics describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the forces that cause...
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  • stable because of its interactions with two Lagrange points (L1 and L2) of the planet–moon system. In more general terms, an object of negligible mass...
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  • property List of triangle topics Combinatorics concerns the study of discrete (and usually finite) objects. Aspects include "counting" the objects satisfying...
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    that joins the nearest and farthest points across an orbit; it also refers simply to the extreme range of an object orbiting a host body (see top figure;...
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    Hill sphere (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    needed] at one of the nearby Lagrange points, forming a cone-like point there.[clarification needed][not verified in body] At the opposite side of the less...
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    Orbit (redirect from Orbits of planets)
    of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point. Normally, orbit refers to a regularly...
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  • perturbations by other objects and the effects of general relativity. A Kepler orbit is an idealized, mathematical approximation of the orbit at a particular time...
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    stable equilibrium points (at 75.3°E and 108°W) and two corresponding unstable points (at 165.3°E and 14.7°W). Any geostationary object placed between the...
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  • implement one of the SGP models to correctly compute the state at a time of interest. TLEs can describe the trajectories only of Earth-orbiting objects. TLEs...
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    those objects closer to the Sun, which are more affected by heat and light pressure, are composed of elements with high melting points. Objects farther...
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    James Webb Space Telescope (category Artificial satellites at Earth-Sun Lagrange points)
    French Guiana. In January 2022 it arrived at its destination, a solar orbit near the Sun–Earth L2 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 mi)...
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    (such as Laplace, Lagrange, Gauss, Poincaré, Kolmogorov, Vladimir Arnold, and Jürgen Moser) have searched for evidence for the stability of the planetary...
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    positions of celestial objects (satellites, planets, stars, galaxies, etc.) relative to a given reference frame, based on physical reference points available...
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  • list excludes astronauts of Indian origin. List of Asian astronauts List of Indian mathematicians List of Indian scientists "Cosmonaut Biography: Rakesh...
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  • journal') is a book with tables that gives the trajectory of naturally occurring astronomical objects as well as artificial satellites in the sky, i.e., the...
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    Aditya-L1 (category Satellites of India)
    Aditya-L1 (/aːd̪it̪jə/) (from Sanskrit: Aditya, "Sun" and L1, "Lagrange point 1") is a coronagraphy spacecraft for studying the solar atmosphere, designed...
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