An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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gravity wake
  کل ِ گرانی   
kel-e gerâni

Fr.: sillage de gravité   

Transient → streamers which form when → clumps of particles begin to collapse under their own → self-gravity but are sheared out by → differential rotation. This phenomenon is believed to be the source of → azimuthal asymmetry in → Saturn's → A ring (Ellis et al., 2007, Planetary Ring Systems, Springer).

gravity; → wake.

moonlet wake
  کل ِ مانگچه   
kel-e mângcé

Fr.: sillage de lune mineure   

Local disturbances in the ring structure caused by the gravitational influence of embedded satellites. If the satellite (moonlet) is large enough to clear a gap in the rings, the moonlet wakes become edge waves that precede the satellite on the inner edge and trail the satellite on the outer edge. For smaller satellites, the "gap-less" wakes have been nicknamed propellors (Ellis et al., 2007, Planetary Ring Systems, Springer).

moonlet; → wake.

wake
  کل   
kel

Fr.: sillage   

1) The track left by a moving ship.
2) A turbulent region appearing behind an object in a fluid which streams around the object, for example behind an aircraft in flight.

Cognate with M.L.G. wake "wake," Nor. dialect vok, O.N. vok, voka "hole in the ice."

Kel, from Tabari kel, kal "trail, track, footprint."