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Aphelion

noun
(pl. aphelia)
1.
Apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun.





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"Aphelion" Quotes from Famous Books



... speeds on, yearning like a god in pain for his far-away aphelion in Kabul. Morning bashfully overtakes him; and the train dances into stations festooned with branches of olive and palm. A feu-de-joie of champagne corks is fired; special correspondents in clean white trousers enliven the scene; Baron Reuter's ubiquitous ...
— Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series • George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
... the rocks into glass and the oceans into vapor, before proceeding to such extremity, must have first formed a thick interposing ring of clouds, and thus considerably modified the excessive temperature. Therefore, between the extreme cold of the aphelion and the excessive heat of the perihelion, by the great law of compensation, it is probable that the mean temperature ...
— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Aphelion" :   perihelion, apoapsis, point of apoapsis


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