[Reily]

If I didn’t know better Osiris-Rex looking for Trojans. This could be the opening scene of an old sword & sandal movie or porno flick!

Someone at NASA clearly had a sense of humor when they wrote that press release.

[InterceptPoint]

Seems to me that the moons gravity would cause these points in space to wobble a bit.

True?
False?

[fhayek]

You will probably need Trojans, because, as some of you may already know about Lagrange, They got a lot of nice girls...

[mountn man]

NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Just Got an Amazing Side-Quest

[editor-surveyor]

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We have the whole planet to examine; we know what the planet is formed from.

This sounds like fake ‘science’ for someone to wrap a grant around.

Snuff it!

[DannyTN]

Here's a trojan asteroid passing by....

[MUDDOG]

These points are located 60 degrees ahead of and 60 degrees behind the Earth in its elliptical orbit around the Sun.

So if it's on the earth's orbital path, a Lagrange point would be at the vertex of a (mostly) equilateral triangle with the earth and sun at the other vertices.

Therefore at a Lagrange point, the force from the earth's gravity would be much smaller than from the sun, and the net gravitational vector would point mostly toward the sun.

So it can't be that the gravitational forces "balance each other out" there. It must be some sort of a stable point for solar orbit.

[PIF]

“Looking at the trojan asteroids our planet shepherds might provide a more accurate snapshot of the material our planet formed from.”

Nice sentence structure ...

Also could host long term research/mil outposts.

[airborne]

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