The study of libration points has become the pursuit of free rides. (discovermagazine.com)
NASA now has four space missions in the works that will use the gravitational weirdness of libration points for everything from mapping the whisper of radiation left over from the Big Bang to photographing Earth 24 hours a day. (discovermagazine.com)
Scientifically the word has had a longer lifetime, because the depths of outer space are sprinkled with what are called libration points: places where a satellite or a pebble or anything else that might get there would find itself perfectly balanced between competing gravitational forces. (discovermagazine.com)