Van Allen belt noun phr. [van 'alǝn bɛlt] M20.
[from James A. Van Allen (b. 1914), US physicist.]
More fully Van Allen radiation belt. Either of two regions partly surrounding the earth at heights of several thousand kilometres, containing intense radiation and high-energy charged particles trapped by the earth's magnetic field; a similar region around another planet.

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