Meaning & use
circumsolar
Surrounding or orbiting the sun.
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The telescope tracked debris in a circumsolar orbit near the planet's path.
Scientists study circumsolar dust to understand how planets originally formed.
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"Circumsolar" is a technical astronomy term, rarely used outside scientific writing.
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