Meanings
- astrophysicsSynonym of Poynting-Robertson effect.
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To study the observability of the martian dust belts in this paper, we employed our dynamical code that numerically integrates orbit-averaged equations of motion of a circummartian particle in Lagrange elements derived by Krivov et al. (1996)[…], which we recently generalized to accommodate the Poynting–Robertson drag (Makuch et al., 2005).
2006 August, Alexander V. Krivov, Artem G. Feofilov, Valeri V. Dikarev, “Search for the putative dust belts of Mars: The late 2007 opportunity”, in Planetary and Space Science, volume 54, numbers 9–10, →DOI, page 873Synonyms: Poynting-Robertson effect
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Poynting-Robertson effect.
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