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Lagrange points (green), primary central object (yellow) and secondary orbiting object (blue)
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L2
- (astrophysics) second Lagrange point, located further out from the primary of a system where a smaller object orbits a larger one, behind the smaller object, inline with a line drawn through the centres of the larger and smaller objects
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- (astrophysics): Lagrange point, L1, L3, L4, L5
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