Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of circum-Jovian.
In the accretion disk model, a circumjovian disk forms as solar nebula gas and entrained solid particles (dust to boulder-size) flow through the growing planet's Roche lobes to feed Jupiter during the rapid (runaway) gas-capture phase of core accretion [...].
2023, Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Katherine de Kleer, James Tuttle Keane, Io: A New View of Jupiter’s Moon, page 431 more example
The differential migration of the newly formed Galilean satellites due to interactions with a circumjovian disk can lead to the primordial formation of the Laplace relation n₁ − 3n₂ + 2n₃ = 0, where the nᵢ are the mean orbital angular velocities of Io, Europa, and Ganymede, respectively.
2002 October 18, S. J. Peale, Man Hoi Lee, “A Primordial Origin of the Laplace Relation Among the Galilean Satellites”, in Science, volume 298, number 5593, →DOI, page 593
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