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muriel_volestrangler

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2. Damn, mathematics is weird. Here are animations of the orbit

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jun 29, 2022, 08:16 PM

Jun 2022

courtesy of Commander Hadfield:

Link to tweet

and a more general animation of "near rectilinear halo orbits":

The weird thing is these are orbits "around" the L2 Lagrange point - which is 60,000 km on the far side of the Moon from the Earth. But as the 2nd animation shows, you start with an orbit that actually does seem to be around that point, but the family of orbits "develops" from that into orbits that more or less end up round the Moon.

There's a side-on view at page 395 here: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1979CeMec..20..389B

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Watch NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat launch to the moon Tuesday to test unique lunar orbit [View all] Judi Lynn Jun 2022 OP

Thank you for posting this. That was a great launch and this is a fascinating project. CentralMass Jun 2022 #1

Damn, mathematics is weird. Here are animations of the orbit muriel_volestrangler Jun 2022 #2