From: utzoo!decvax!cca!csin!cjh@CCA-UNIX@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: re: lagrange points
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1675
Posted: Tue Jun  8 09:21:20 1982
Received: Wed Jun  9 01:12:31 1982

  Sorry...L4 and L5 are the trojan points (+/- 60 degrees in lunar orbit).
The ones you describe are in the set L1-L3, which are balanced but not
stable; this is why all the colonies are proposed for L5 or 4, leaving the
groundhogs wondering what happened to the first three.