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I REFER, to an important paper1 by Prof. H. P. Robertson of Princeton, tracing out the effects of the Poynting principle of suction of fine orbital dust or gas into the sun or other strongly radiating star. It concerns me directly as in an amendment of the numerical factor for the reprint in Poynting's “Collected Papers” I inadvertently doubled the final value by adding the effects in the two frames of reference, that of the sun and that of the orbital particle, instead of taking them as alternative.
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LARMOR, J. Origins of the Zodiacal Light. Nature 141, 201 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141201a0
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