CentralNotice Lagrangian point From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "Lagrange Point" redirects here. For the video game, see Lagrange Point (video game) . This article is about three-body libration points. For two-body libration points, see Geostationary orbit#Earth orbital libration points . A contour plot of the effective potential due to gravity and the centrifugal force of a two-body system in a rotating frame of reference. The arrows indicate the gradients of the potential around the five Lagrange points—downhill toward them ( red ) or away from them ( blue ). Counterintuitively, the L 4 and L 5 points are the high points of the potential. At the points themselves these forces are balanced. Visualisation of the relationship between the Lagrangian points (red) of a planet (blue) orbiting a star (yellow) anticlockwise, and the e...