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It's not an orbit, per se, but... it will go around the Earth once per year.
by pklausler 5y ago
It's not an orbit, per se, but... it will go around the Earth once per year.
- phkahler 5y ago>> it will go around the Earth once per year. I think more accurately it will go around the sun once per year. The earth will provide the extra gravitational pull (toward the sun) needed to orbit the sun at a larger radius than the earth in the same amount of time as the earth.
- pklausler 5y agoSure, but it also goes around the Earth once per year, too, sidereally.
- phkahler 5y agoSure, but I doubt anyone would say that about some of the other lagrange points.
- sp332 5y agoIt equally orbits the sun and the earth. Normally, objects with smaller orbits take less time to make a circuit. But this is placed where the earth's gravity pulls it back, just enough to make it take one (earth) year to finish its smaller orbit. So gravity from the earth and the sun are involved.
- nabla9 5y agoOnly in the same sense as mars goes around the Earth. Meaningless concept. It never crosses inside Earth orbit. Maybe "co-orbits the Sun with the Earth using Earth's gravity"