From: utzoo!decvax!cca!POURNE@MIT-MC@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Lagrange Points
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1696
Posted: Wed Jun  9 23:49:15 1982
Received: Fri Jun 11 00:43:43 1982

From: Jerry E. Pournelle 
Since the founding of the L-5 Society it has long been
recognized that L4 and L5 are probably not the optimum points
for locating a colony; certainly not for the first one.   (I
should say May Not Be optimum.)  But surely we shouldn't have to
change the name of the outfit every year or two, so we stick
with L-5.

L-5 trails; L-4 leads.  In the TROJAN POINTS which is the
Sun-Jupiter-Trojan asteroids system, the Greeks lead and Trojans
trail: that is, the L-4 points were all named for Greek heroes
of the Iliad, the L-5 points named for the Trojans.  Alas, the
convention wasn't established before two asteroids were named
wrongly: there's a Greek spy  in the Trojan camp adn vice versa.
	When we get out there we'll hjave enough energy to swap
them back./..