circumjovian

English

Alternative forms

• circum-Jovian

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 n_i are the mean orbital angular velocities of Io, Europa, and Ganymede, respectively.