Usually means: Solar radiation reduces orbital debris.
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  1. Poynting-Robertson effect: Infoplease Dictionary
  2. poynting-robertson effect: Dictionary.com
  3. Poynting-Robertson effect: Wiktionary

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  1. Poynting-Robertson Effect: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Poynting-Robertson effect: Glossary on Meteor Astronomy
  3. Poynting-Robertson Effect: Extragalactic Astronomy

Definitions from Wiktionary (Poynting-Robertson effect)

noun:  (astrophysics) A process by which solar radiation causes a dust grain orbiting a star to lose angular momentum relative to its orbit around the star.

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