In the context of orbital mechanics involving the Earth, Moon and Sun this is rather annoying, but in 1772 Joseph-Louis Lagrange found a family of solutions in which the three masses form an ...
A renewed rivalry between the United States and China in space exploration has placed special focus on Lagrange points.
These celestial orchestrations owe their name to the ingenious Italian-French mathematician, Joseph-Louis Lagrange. Five such special points mark the choreographic masterpieces in space – places ...