Interplanetary Dust Clouds Orbit Earth, Hungarian Scientists Confirm
A team of Hungarian astronomers and physicists may have finally confirmed two clouds of interplanetary dust orbiting Earth that were first reported in 1961.There are five points of stability in the Earth-moon system where gravitational forces keep objects in position. Scientists call these “Lagrange points," and they're numbered as L1 to L5. Back in 1961, Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski claimed to have taken pictures of dust that formed two cloud patches at L4 and L5. Astronomers
Read more »