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Monolith among the moons

The points of intersection of the purple and green circles line up with the points of intersection of the green and orange, lines meeting on the orange circle. Show that the circle centers plus the orange point form a parallelogram.

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Solution

Parallelogram lemma

Observe that the distance between the peaks, in the direction of AB, is just half the distance between A and B, leading to the result.

Apply this lemma twice to show that the purple centre is the parallelogram vertex.

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