On 2010-10-11 16:29:21 -0500, Jeffrey Kaplan said:   
   > Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Vince M Hudd said:   
   >    
   >>> [...]  If I try to make sense   
   >> of one, the other makes my head explode because it just seems wrong, so I   
   >> just trust that the men in the white coats know what they're talking about.   
   >    
   > Which men in the white coats?  I can think of two types... :)   
   The physicists.   
   When I took Mechanics II in college we actually derived the Lagrange    
   points as an exercise. At that time (1980) I understood the physics. I    
   haven't thought about that stuff in years, though.   
   I remember that the two bodies in question have to be quite a bit more    
   massive than the spaceship, asteroid, or whatever the third body is,    
   and I believe that the two primary bodies have to have some mass    
   difference. But I could be wrong about that last.   
   Surely there are articles out there online about this stuff. (I could    
   look, but I'm too lazy.)   
   -K   
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