Timeline for Worthwhile to put a telescope on the far side of the Sun?
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| Apr 21 at 13:11 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @KDP Yes, it's a bit unintuitive why maxima in the effective potential can be stable. This answer by Qmechanic has details on the role of the Coriolis force: physics.stackexchange.com/a/363801/123208 | |
| Apr 21 at 11:12 | comment | added | KDP | Looking at the diagram, the L4 and L5 points don't look particularly stable but fortunately someone in the comment mentions that the Coriolis force helps to stabilise them. Nice work though ;_) | |
| Apr 21 at 11:04 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @uhoh I also have a STEREO answer: space.stackexchange.com/a/56140/38535 ;) | |
| Apr 21 at 11:01 | comment | added | uhoh | [+1] There's a cool GIF of how the STEREO pair economically got into orbits both slightly larger and smaller than 1 AU in Does the arrow in this STEREO trajectory animation point heliocentric prograde, or towards the Sun?. | |
| Apr 21 at 11:00 | vote | accept | KDP | ||
| Apr 21 at 10:04 | history | edited | PM 2Ring | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added link to Lagrange point diagram
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| Apr 21 at 9:58 | history | answered | PM 2Ring | CC BY-SA 4.0 |