Gravity, Asteroids, and the Trojan Wars

Lagrange Points

William House
EarthSphere
Published in
4 min readMay 5, 2023

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Published in the EarthSphere Blog

Space Rocks by Archean Art (©2023 Archean Enterprises, LLC; ArcheanArt)

Seven hundred and seventy-eight million kilometers from the Sun, two regions of space directly in Jupiter’s orbit contain thousands of stray asteroids, many of them believed to be as old as the solar system. Despite being in the direct path of Jupiter’s orbit, the planet will never collide with these asteroids…

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William House
EarthSphere

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