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gregweymann
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Physics gurus: I understood from Newton's Law that a 2 bodies would rotate around their common center of mass. Should one body disappear (Harry Potter invoked here), the other would go flying off at a tangent... like a 'David's Sling" releasing a missile. The mass of the bodies was crucial to figuring the orbits; without 2 or more bodies possessing mass, there was no curvilinear motion.
Einstein proposed that mass 'deformed' space-time so that the track of a satellite orbiting a massive second body was the most natural path. Again with the MASS.
Could someone please attempt explaining the orbits of ARTEMIS-P1, Planck, and Herschel around Lagrange points which are not massy at all? There's no MASS there.
Thank you.
Greg Weymann
Einstein proposed that mass 'deformed' space-time so that the track of a satellite orbiting a massive second body was the most natural path. Again with the MASS.
Could someone please attempt explaining the orbits of ARTEMIS-P1, Planck, and Herschel around Lagrange points which are not massy at all? There's no MASS there.
Thank you.
Greg Weymann