The TROJAN Test
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Dec 3, 2025 19:14
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How do we truly know if something is orbiting something else? You may be familiar with the barycenter test, but you may not have heard of the better "Trojan test"!
Further reading:
- https://science.nasa.gov/resource/what-is-a-lagrange-point/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138764732200001X
- https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/ContentMedia/lagrange.pdf
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad55f3
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