22 Jun
2017
22 Jun
'17
11:18 p.m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintic_function#Application_to_celestial_mech... (recently added?) intriguingly claims that the L1 and L2 points for an elliptically orbiting planet are quintic roots of its orbital parameters. How can an eccentric planet have Lagrange points, unless the eccentricity is very low? --rwg