Steven Den Beste Strawman

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# 21134 byPhil Putman on March 29, 2006, 8:53 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

> The L5 Lagrange point is 60 grade behind Earth orbit around the Sun.
> That means about 150 million km orbital distance, from Moon and Earth
> away.

Just wanted to point out that the idea was to put something at the
earth-moon L5 point, not the earth-sun L5 point. Earth-moon L5 is 0.3
million km from the moon.

For this distance, at a pedestrian speed of 500 m/s, the transit time
is 7 hours.

-Phil