[meteorite-list] Origins continued Lagrange Points...was NWA 5400 Age & Origin Processes

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:37:12 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <633788.32738.qm_at_web113614.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Elton,
to date there are no known Earth Trojans.

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Wed, 9/29/10, MEM <mstreman53 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: MEM <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Origins continued Lagrange Points...was NWA 5400 Age & Origin Processes
> To: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at htn.net>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 10:28 AM
> This discussion prompted me to wonder
> what reservoirs might exist that could 
> preserve any big wack debris which was not re-accreted onto
> the Earth or Moon.???
> I came up with the natural orbital parking lot known as the
> Earth Trojans.? For 
> those unaware, they orbit in the Lagrangian point's L4 and
> L5 which are 
> 60degrees ahead and behind Earth's relative orbit around
> the Sun. (There is a 
> rumor afoot that we are going to send a mission to the
> Trojans but I don't know 
> which planetary swarm of Trojans that might be, In theory
> all planets have their 
> own Trojans).? Langrngian point Trojan orbits are
> theoretically very stable and 
> long lived but not immune to being rewacked out of that
> comfort zone from time 
> to time.
> 
> Is anyone aware of the of spectral matches with the
> bracinites or bracinite and 
> a possible 
> 
> parent body?? Have any spectral matches been found in
> the Earth Trojans ?? 
> And are there any bracinite candidates in the Lagrange
> points/ Earth Trojans?
> 
> Other possible long lived locations might be a? a
> steeply inclined polar orbit 
> around earth although lunar mechanics might not permit
> that.? There has also 
> been much speculation about the existence of a debris swarm
> at the Lunar 
> Lagrangian points as well.
> 
> Elton
> For a discussion of Lagrange points:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point>
> 
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