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Re:China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon by mkl on Thursday January 03, 2019 @04:35AM (#18813907)
The L2 point that the satellite is orbiting is a Lagrange point [1], a place where the gravity (edit: and centrifugal forces) of the Earth and the moon balance. L2 follows the moon as the moon orbits, because the moon is what makes it exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point

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