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... does not necessarily occur on the actual date of the opposition. In 1907 Mars was in perigee, as it is termed, seven days after the opposition; while in ...

— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks

... did not hold himself lightly. He knew all about Apoge and Perige (we now spell them Apogee and Perigee). But does the Radical Club itself know anything at all about Apogee and Perigee? He knew when some "fine moderate weather" would come, when "winds enough for several" would blow, when "bad weather for hoop petticoats" would be; and that was on the 29th and 30th of January, 1727. ...

— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various

... shall show how far their orbits deviate from circles; and they shall enumerate the cycles of changes detected in the circuit of the moon. Clairaut shall remove the perplexity occasioned by the seeming discrepancy between the observed and computed motions of the moon's perigee. Halley shall demonstrate the importance of observations of the transit of Venus as the only certain way of obtaining the sun's parallax, and hence the distance of the sun from the earth; he shall ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI • John Lord

... June 17, 1433. This was long remembered in Scotland as the "Black Hour," and its circumstances were fully investigated some years ago by Hind. It was a remarkable eclipse in that the Moon was within 13 deg. of perigee and the Sun only 2 deg. from apogee. The central line traversed Scotland in a south-easterly direction from Ross to Forfar, passing near Inverness and Dundee. Maclaurin[88] who lived in the early part of the last century ...

— The Story of Eclipses • George Chambers

Words linked to "Perigee" : periapsis, point of periapsis, apogee