Co-ordinate moons

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Co-ordinate moons in the broader sense are all natural satellites that move in the same or a very similar orbit around a planet .

The two Saturn moons Janus and Epimetheus are called co-ordinate moons in the narrower sense .

A subgroup of the co-orbital moons are the small Trojan moons , which move in the libration or Lagrange points of larger moons.

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