But it is Rocket Science
Episode 35: Lagrange Points - Rest Spots and Parking Spots on the Highway of Space - BIIRS Season 3
22 Jun 2021
In this week's episode, we shine the spotlight on Lagrange Points! How can you be stationary but be moving at the same time in space? Who discovered Lagrange Points? Why are they useful? Tune in to find out all about them! We have Merch!! https://www.butitisrocketscience.com/shop Find us on social media! Instagram: butitisrocketscience Twitter: butitisRS Facebook: But it is Rocket Science Music from filmmusic.io "Tyrant" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Anna's Sources: Copper Moon Coffee: https://www.coppermooncoffee.com “Catalog of Earth Satellite Orbits.” NASA, NASA, earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/OrbitsCatalog/page2.php. “Earth Mass.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 18 June 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_mass. “The Five Lagrange Points.” ESA, www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/05/The_five_Lagrange_points. Howell, Elizabeth. “Lagrange Points: Parking Places in Space.” Space.com, Space, 22 Aug. 2017, www.space.com/30302-lagrange-points.html. “Lagrange Point.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 June 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point. “Lagrange Points -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics.” Scienceworld.wolfram.com, scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/LagrangePoints.html. “Orbits and Speed – Higher - Solar System, Stability of Orbital Motions, Satellites - Eduqas - GCSE Physics (Single Science) Revision - Eduqas - BBC Bitesize.” BBC News, BBC, www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxhr7p3/revision/4 “Solar Mass.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 2 June 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_mass. “Telescope.” ESA, www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Planck/Telescope. “What Are Lagrange Points?” ESA, www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/What_are_Lagrange_points. “What Is a Lagrange Point?” NASA, NASA, solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/754/what-is-a-lagrange-point/. “What's the Deal with Lagrange Points?” Quantum Rocketry, 24 Nov. 2012, josephshoer.com/blog/2012/11/whats-the-deal-with-lagrange-points/. Henna's Sources: “Edmond Halley.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 20 June 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley. Isoperimetric Problems, www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahmto/latex_html/chapter2_latex2html/node9.html. “Joseph Louis Lagrange | A Short Account of the History of Mathematics.” Joseph Louis Lagrange | A Short Account of the History of Mathematics | W.W. Rouse Ball | Lit2Go ETC, etc.usf.edu/lit2go/218/a-short-account-of-the-history-of-mathematics/5536/joseph-louis-lagrange/. “Leonhard Euler.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 21 June 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler. Nolte, David D. “The Three-Body Problem, Longitude at Sea, and Lagrange's Points.” Galileo Unbound, 7 July 2019, galileo-unbound.blog/2019/07/05/the-three-body-problem-longitude-at-sea-and-lagranges-points/. “The Parking Spaces of Space: The Lagrange Points.” YouTube, YouTube, 15 Dec. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LjGgJ4ST60.
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