Originally Posted by HenryGarten:
“Wow that that is very interesting.
It reminds me of a certain media personality who was talking about the Voyager enounter with Neptune a few years before it was due. She said "I predict they will find rings around Neptune". Hold on....hadn't someone already done that?
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“Wow that that is very interesting.
It reminds me of a certain media personality who was talking about the Voyager enounter with Neptune a few years before it was due. She said "I predict they will find rings around Neptune". Hold on....hadn't someone already done that?
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Well, HenryGarten, those stable gravitational neutral points have been put to both scientific and creative use.
For example, the Solar Heliosphere Observatory space probe was placed in the Lagrangian L1 point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lagrange_points2.svg where it remains today still observing the Sun's behaviour.
In contrast, the Lagrangian L3 point featured in the 1969 film Doppelgänger - Journey to the Far Side of the Sun in which an astronaut finds himself landing back on an alternative Earth that's exactly opposite the "real" Earth on the other side of the Sun.
In real life though there's nothing there in this solar system and most of the cosmic rubble here seems to accumulate in the L4 and L5 Lagrangian points of the different planets.




