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A body at a Lagrangian point orbits with the same period as the two massive bodies in the circular case... are what all Lagrangian point missions to date have used... The Lagrangian point orbits have unique characteristics that have made them a good choice for performing some kinds... there was a defensive satellite located at a Lagrangian point in the solar system in which Atlantis was located...

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Lagrange Point (video game) | A contour plot of the effective potential of a two-body system (the Sun and Earth here) due to gravity and the centrifugal force as viewed from the rotating frame of reference in which Sun and Earth remain stationary.  Objects revolving with the same orbital period as the Earth will begin to move according to the contour lines showing equipotential surfaces. The arrows indicate the gradients of increasing potential around the five Lagrange points —  toward or away from them, but at the points themselves these forces are balanced. See NASA Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe for more details. | | potential | Sun | Earth | centrifugal force | rotating frame of reference | orbital period | contour lines | equipotential | /ləˈgreɪndʒiən/ | [lagʁɑ̃ʒjɑ̃] | libration | orbital | gravity | satellite | Earth | Moon | centripetal | geostationary orbits | three-body problem | orbits | center of mass | mass | rotating reference frame | gravitational fields | centrifugal force | Euler | Joseph-Louis Lagrange | three-body problem | Newtonian mechanics | chaotically | equilibrium | action | potential energy | kinetic energy | Lagrangian mechanics | hypothesize | Trojan asteroids | elliptical | similar | Newton's second law | momentum | invariant | equation of motion | A diagram showing the five Lagrangian points in a two-body system with one body far more massive than the other (e.g. the Sun and the Earth).  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