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1671: "What Is the L2 Point?"
Episode 1671
Published 1 week, 1 day ago
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Interesting Things with JC #1671: "What Is the L2 Point?" – A mathematician identified a location in space in 1772 where gravity keeps spacecraft moving with Earth around the Sun, and nearly 250 years later observatories began traveling there to do some of humanity's most advanced science.