Timeline for Why is the L1 point (Lagrange) almost 1 million miles from Earth? Shouldn't it be closer to us?
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| Feb 22, 2022 at 23:52 | vote | accept | Kurt Hikes | ||
| Feb 22, 2022 at 23:51 | comment | added | Kurt Hikes | Lee Mosher, I hadn't thought of that... for some reason.... Until just now... D'Oh!! | |
| Feb 7, 2022 at 21:55 | comment | added | uhoh | @LeeMosher excellent point! | |
| Feb 7, 2022 at 16:36 | history | edited | peterh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2022 at 13:33 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | You must be really worried about $L_2$, where the sun's force and earth's force reinforce each other. | |
| Feb 7, 2022 at 13:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 6, 2022 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAstronomy/status/1490430105713270784 | ||
| Feb 6, 2022 at 9:47 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | You may like my Lagrange point diagrams here: space.stackexchange.com/a/57679/38535 | |
| Feb 6, 2022 at 9:44 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 6, 2022 at 3:10 | answer | added | David Hammen | timeline score: 20 | |
| Feb 6, 2022 at 3:01 | comment | added | Keith McClary | At the Lagrange points, the gravitational forces of the two large bodies and the centrifugal force balance each other. | |
| Feb 6, 2022 at 0:13 | history | asked | Kurt Hikes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |