Poynting-Robertson drag

proper noun

Synonym of Poynting-Robertson effect.

Meanings

proper nounthe Poynting-Robertson drag
  1. 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 873

    Synonyms: Poynting-Robertson effect

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounSynonym of Poynting-Robertson effect.

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