circumsaturnian

English

Alternative forms

• circum-Saturnian

Etymology

From circum- +‎ Saturnian.

Adjective

circumsaturnian (not comparable)

1. (astronomy) That surrounds or circles the planet Saturn.
   • 2000 July, Kandy S. Jarvis, Faith Vilas, Stephen M. Larson, Michael J. Gaffey, “Are Hyperion and Phoebe Linked to Iapetus?”, in Icarus, volume 146, number 1, →DOI, page 131:

     While strong evidence supports an exogenous source of impacting particles creating the albedo changes centered on the apex of the leading hemisphere of Iapetus (Buratti and Mosher 1995), the origin of these particles is still unknown. The spectral data do not provide supporting evidence for either a circumsaturnian or a^[sic] interplanetary origin of the particles.