Etymology

Kordylewski cloud

Today it means: Any of the dust clouds found at the Trojan points, the L4 and L5 Lagrange points, in the Earth–Moon system, and of any other such system. Full definition →

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Named after Kazimierz Kordylewski, who made the first observations of the phenomenon.

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