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How big are the L4/L5 Moon-Earth Lagrange Points?

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How large are the L4/L5 Moon-Earth lagrange points in terms of volume, or length and width?

If you were to build space stations there, would there be room for many of them, or just one?

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  1. I cant recall who it is I am quoting, but someone said "there is no THERE, there", when refering to the Lagrangian points.  Its just a location within empty space.  There really isnt anything there to measure.


  2. They're POINTS.  If you wanted several objects there, they would need to orbit around the L4/L5 point.  These orbits could be huge, many times larger than near-earth orbits.  As a quick guess, I would say the orbits could by as large as 500,000 km by 100,000 km.  The orbit shape is quite odd, sort of like a cross-section of a long kidney bean.

    A lot of habitat cylinders, 50 km long by 10 km circular, could share orbits around L4 or L5.

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