AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 天前If planets have stable Lagrange points 1/6 of the way around their orbits, why don’t protoplanetary disks typically condense into six mutually-reenforcing planets spaced evenly around their suns?message-squaremessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
arrow-up134arrow-down1message-squareIf planets have stable Lagrange points 1/6 of the way around their orbits, why don’t protoplanetary disks typically condense into six mutually-reenforcing planets spaced evenly around their suns?AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 天前message-square11linkfedilink
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 天前 to stay at a Lagrange point takes active adjusting. It’s not a low point in gravity, it’s more like balancing on the peak between the two bodies. I thought that was true of L1, L2, and L3, but not L4 or L5—hence the stable clusters of trojans at Jupiter’s L4 and L5 points.
minus-squaremotionofethre@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 天前Correct from what I can see. L4/5 are stable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
I thought that was true of L1, L2, and L3, but not L4 or L5—hence the stable clusters of trojans at Jupiter’s L4 and L5 points.
Correct from what I can see. L4/5 are stable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point