Episode 558: A Tour Of The Lagrange Points. Part 3 - Trojans and Space Colonies at L4/L5

We’ve reached the third part of our series on Lagrange Points, those stable spots in the Solar System, where you can sort of hover with the minimum amount of fuel.

This episode we’re going to look at the L4 and L5 points which share the orbit with a more massive object.

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WN7lS9bpB4

Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgIZgrOZElo

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References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WN7lS9bpB4

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=3080

https://earthsky.org/earth/earths-dust-cloud-satellites-kordylewski

https://phys.org/news/2016-09-astronomers-neptune-trojans.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0179

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/2845.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2816

https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Contents1.html

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