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The same absorption and re-emission that produce radial radiation pressure also produce Poynting–Robertson drag. This velocity-dependent force removes specific orbital energy and angular momentum, destroys the exact Jacobi constant, and turns the formal equilibrium points into slowly drifting configurations. Stellar-wind drag can provide a similar correction.

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