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The Skeptics Guide #862 - Jan 15 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Webb's Halo Orbit

Web won't be exactly at the legrange point. Did you know that till july or something? No, no, it will never be at the leg range po never. Always be kind of inching towards it. And this was a little bit of a surprise to me as well. It will be orbiting around it at a distance greater than the moon. The moon's orbit around the earth, anxious around. Well, this, this is called the halo orbit. They exist simply because they are an integral part of all lhegrange points with thereyou know, like i said, with their complex interplay of the two large gravitational fields and the centripital force.

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