I bring this up from time to time, so heI go again.

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: I bring this up from time to time, so heI go again.

# 11514 byjoe@... on June 11, 2010, 1:46 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

sailor.barsoom wrote:

> But doesn't that mean that there may already be something
> there? Asteroidal material could be trapped at L5 and at
> L4, thus offering us the best of both worlds: always
> close to the Earth, negligible gravity well, diversity of
> materials.

All true.

> I've asked in this forum if this could be possible, and
> the answer seems to be: maybe, but nobody knows for sure.
> I'm going to guess that there isn't anything very big
> there, or we would have noticed it by now. So nothing
> thousands of metres across, and probably not hundreds.
> But ten metres maybe? Or dozens of objects ranging from
> one to five metres? It would sure be interesting if it
> were true, and it's probably worth a couple of million
> bucks just to find out.

I agree. A mission to visit the Lagrange and points (and Trojan points
too, IMHO) would be well worth it.

Best,
- Joe