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Originally Posted by johndallman
Putting Earth at one of Jupiter's Trojan points, on the other hand, might be rather more viable.
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The problem there is that we can't use L4. If we did, we'd be preceding Jupiter in his orbit. And so we'd be the herald of Jupiter, which would force us to rename our planet "Mercury". But that's taken, so we'd have to rename that one, too -- and then whatever one we took the ex-Mercury's new name from, and so on, et cetera ad infinitum. The complexity would get out of hand. It'd be simpler just to move to a whole new star system.