Kordylewski cloud
nounEtymology Named after Kazimierz Kordylewski, who made the first observations of the phenomenon.
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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.
- Related terms
- zodiacal cloud, zodiacal light, gegenschein, Trojan asteroid