Poynting-Robertson effect

Poynting-Robertson effect
/poyn"ting rob"euhrt seuhn/, Astron.
the slowing down and consequent spiraling inward of small particles orbiting the sun, due to their interaction with solar radiation.
[1955-60; after English physicist John H. Poynting (1852-1914) and U.S. physicist Howard P. Robertson (1903-61)]

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