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OCR: AGR ANG AN POINTS Ina system where one bod revolves around another nearly circular orbit, positions where forces balance to create regions where smaller objects can maintain fixed positions with respect the main two bodies in the system. Three semi-stable Lagrangian points lie on the line connec ting the mair bodies objects here would drift away from the system if perturbed. Two stable Lagrangian points exist on the same orbit as the revolving body they lie 60 dep ahead of and 60 deg behind this body The Trojan asteroids near Jupiter occupy these Lagrangian points systeim ooints