"libration point" Definition

Definitions for the word "libration point" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

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