Kordylewski cloud

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Kazimierz Kordylewski, who made the first observations of the phenomenon.

Noun[edit]

Kordylewski cloud (plural Kordylewski clouds)

  1. Any of the dust clouds found at the Trojan points, the L4 and L5 Lagrange points, in the Earth-Moon system, and of any other such system

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