Two bodies (purple disks) in the rotating frame, center of mass (black + sign),
effective potential contours (blue and purple), vector gradient of effective potential (gray arrows),
Lagrange points (green disks),
and orbit trails of four third bodies: circular around the more massive body (red),
at L5 and given a little push (gray),
at L4 (red),
and slightly offset from L3 (orange).
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Same as to the left, but an mp4 movie showing the four orbits in time.
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