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. PournelleSince 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./..