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superposeur
on Nov 8, 2023
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Euclid's First Images
Thanks and great diagram — I’d imagined a tiny orbit around L2, not one the size of the entire earth!
sbierwagen
on Nov 8, 2023
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The diagram does not make this clear at all, but the big circle is the orbit of the Moon. The Earth is only 12,756 km in diameter, and the tick marks are 200,000 km apart. If drawn to scale on that diagram, it would be 2.7 pixels wide.
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