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THE kinematic stability of a planetoid orbiting in permanent sextile configuration with two other attracting centres, for which the ratio of the larger to the smaller mass exceeds 25, is well established. Indeed, the Trojan asteroids, the elongation from their theoretical libration points of which is sometimes considerable, do certainly not appear to exhibit the catastrophic instability predicted by Colombo's non-linear model.
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BENEDIKT, E. Instability of Motion at the Lagrangian Triangular Point in the Earth–Moon System. Nature 193, 1063 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931063b0
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