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I'm puzzled by this picture caption:
If they're on opposite sides of Saturn, they can't be seen like this! If "opposite sides" merely means above and below their average height, the sentence is non-sequitur; that is to be expected and does not preclude proximity. Does it really mean the picture is a composite of separate shots? — Tamfang ( talk) 20:49, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Kepler, apparently, may have found co-orbital planets [1]. They are still in "candidate" phase, waiting for confirmation.
Do candidate planets count? If so, should this become the "co-orbital astronomical object" page? ("co-orbit"?) More curious than anything else.
68.183.80.244 ( talk) 07:12, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
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The Lagrange Points L4 & L5 are not exactly in the orbit of the secondary, which means that the use of 60 degrees in the article is inexact. The triangle (L4/L5, primary, secondary) is exactly equiangular. 94.30.84.71 ( talk) 09:41, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
As currently written, the article says “(or 1:-1 if orbiting in opposite directions)”. My non-expert reading of some of the easier literature suggests that the mechanisms just don’t happen if the things are orbiting in opposite directions. If the dynamics still work, more needs to be said. If they don’t, as I suspect, then this phrase should be deleted. JDAWiseman ( talk) 00:23, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
How about update info from more recent discoveries about Uranus trojans, Neptune trojans, and some temporary Venus trojans?-- Bobbylon ( talk) 12:10, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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This stat in the first paragraph confuses me, how can two bodies share an orbit yet be moving in opposite directions? Wouldn't they collide? I don't see how a 1:-1 mean motion resonance is possible with physical objects that could hit each other. Caelus5 Chat∞ Contribs 14:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
I've seen it in many places here that asteroids in the leading L4 coorbital position relative to Jupiter are called "Greeks" rather than "Trojans", and only those in the trailing L5 position are uniformly called "Trojan" in all sources. Is that a thing unique to Jupiter and the naming conventions adopted for its particular trojan asteroids, or would that also extend to the L4 vs L5 groups around other planets / moons? If not, why not, given that it seems a fairly neat and easy way of distinguishing the two largely non-interacting groups (horseshoe orbits notwithstanding)? 51.7.16.171 ( talk) 12:49, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Current text: ... L4 and L5, 60° ahead of and behind the larger body respectively. Another class is the horseshoe orbit, in which objects librate around 180° from the larger body
Is "180° from the larger body" the L3 point? If so shouldn't L3 be mentioned, as L4 and L5 are? If not, perhaps this should noted. Jdthood ( talk) 07:53, 8 October 2019 (UTC)