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Old 06-18-2009, 05:22 AM   #13
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Default Re: Celestial Bodies

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Originally Posted by Molokh View Post
Aren't Lagrange points special precisely because they're stable?
They are the places where gravity forces cancel out. However most objects are not exactly uniform, meaning that the gravity field is not uniform either. Thus you need small corrections to compensate for the thing, just like satelites do.
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