Talk:Gaia probe

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[edit] Which L2 again?

... and will be operated in a Lissajous-type orbit around at the second Lagrangian point (L2) of the Sun-Earth-Moon system."

This is ambiguous at best; surely it is supposed to be the Sun-Earth L2 (as opposed to the Earth-Moon L2)? Also misleading, as there is no such thing as a 4th-point Lagrangian point associated with three gravitationally-bound objects. --DWIII 05:25, 4 January 2007 (UTC)