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Space Junk Tracked

Posted by michael on from the nice-meeting-you dept.

TheToon writes "Remember that "new moon" that turned out to be space junk? NASA has traced the path of it, with an animation. Some close misses on the moon, but it turns out just fine. Junk is on its way now, but might be back in 2040."

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  1. Re:Nice Maneuver, but.... by KarMannJRO · · Score: 5, Informative

    Keep in mind though, the L1-L3 Lagrangian points aren't dynamically stable enough to attract things to them and keep them there. Only the L4 and L5 points will do that, where they're then usually called Trojans, 60 degrees ahead of and behind the secondary body. For L1-L3, some kind of station-keeping is needed to make something stay put, after some maneuvers to get it into the right place to begin with.