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Re: [Phys-l] Lagrange points

At 7:19 PM -0800 12/2/09, John Mallinckrodt wrote:
I wouldn't be too hard on them. It's not at all unreasonable to work in a rotating frame when thinking about things like Lagrange points. Moreover, notice that they didn't even talk about gravitational *forces*. They simply said, "the gravity of the Earth and sun balance out." That's really not all that far from a completely
reasonable general relativistic statement.


Just out of curiosity, how far apart ARE the L1 point and the grav. balance point.
(In some sort of 'reduced' coordinate measure rather than miles or such)

Sounds like the earth-sun L! is getting sorta crowded?
SOHO actually circles AROUND the L1 point??
Sorta cool.