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A more correct term would be "saddle points". They're stable, until the tiniest of perturbations occurs, then they're not stable anymore.
by spwa4 2y ago
A more correct term would be "saddle points". They're stable, until the tiniest of perturbations occurs, then they're not stable anymore.
- bell-cot 2y agoThat is true of some of them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point#Stability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point#Stability - but famously not others - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrange_points#Sun%E2%80%93Jupiter_Lagrange_points https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrange_po...
- spwa4 2y agoNope, true of all of them. They're massively large and pretty flat, so yes you can be in them for a "long" time. But still saddle points tiny perturbation will kick you out. It'll just take a while to get kicked out due to the shear size of these "points". They "capture" asteroids temporarily.