infall zone

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infall zone [′in‚fȯl ‚zōn]

(astronomy)

The region that forms between the tidal radius of a planet in formation and the actual surface of the planet when the planet contracts from the tidal radius, so that any matter that enters this region falls to the planet's surface.

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