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  • In a system with two heavy bodies there are 5 Lagrangian points. You can easily calculate the positions of L1, L2 and L3 yourself using Newton's law of gravity; L4 and L5 might be harder. When you add extra bodies (extra planets, moons, ...) the problem will only be solvable in very specific, easy cases.
  • When calculating these points you generally want to neglect the mass of the body in orbit, so you really don't want this mass to be bigger than about $1%$$1\%$ of the bigger masses.

Lagrangian points

  • In a system with two heavy bodies there are 5 Lagrangian points. You can easily calculate the positions of L1, L2 and L3 yourself using Newton's law of gravity; L4 and L5 might be harder. When you add extra bodies (extra planets, moons, ...) the problem will only be solvable in very specific, easy cases.
  • When calculating these points you generally want to neglect the mass of the body in orbit, so you really don't want this mass to be bigger than about $1%$ of the bigger masses.

Lagrangian points

  • In a system with two heavy bodies there are 5 Lagrangian points. You can easily calculate the positions of L1, L2 and L3 yourself using Newton's law of gravity; L4 and L5 might be harder. When you add extra bodies (extra planets, moons, ...) the problem will only be solvable in very specific, easy cases.
  • When calculating these points you generally want to neglect the mass of the body in orbit, so you really don't want this mass to be bigger than about $1\%$ of the bigger masses.

Lagrangian points

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  • In a system with two heavy bodies there are 5 Lagrangian points. You can easily calculate the positions of L1, L2 and L3 yourself using Newton's law of gravity; L4 and L5 might be harder. When you add extra bodies (extra planets, moons, ...) the problem will only be solvable in very specific, easy cases.
  • When calculating these points you generally want to neglect the mass of the body in orbit, so you really don't want this mass to be bigger than about $1%$ of the bigger masses.

Lagrangian points