circumjovian

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From circum- +‎ Jovian.

Adjective

circumjovian (not comparable)

  1. (astronomy) That surrounds or circles the planet Jupiter.
    • 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:
      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.
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