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Aphelion   Listen
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Aphelion  n.  (pl. aphelia)  (Astron.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.






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"Aphelion" Quotes from Famous Books



... orbit can make you or break you in the spotel business. That's where we were lucky. The one we applied for was a nice low-eccentric ellipse with the perihelion and aphelion figured just right to intersect the Mars-Venus-Earth spacelanes, most of the holiday traffic to the Jovian Moons, and once in a while we'd get ...
— The Love of Frank Nineteen • David Carpenter Knight

... word of God to expect. "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." If ever this was true in the history of the church, we may expect it to be emphatically so when, in the last days, the world is in its aphelion as related to God, and the wicked touch their lowest depths of ...
— The United States in the Light of Prophecy • Uriah Smith



Words linked to "Aphelion" :   apoapsis



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