perigee

Synonyymisanakirja

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puhekieltä The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is closest to the Earth: the periapsis of an Earth orbiter.
(quote-journal)|date=7 September 2014|passage=As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
puhekieltä The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is closest to the planet: the periapsis of any satellite.
1995, John H. Rogers, The Giant Planet Jupiter, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-41008-3, http://books.google.com/books?id=SO48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA335&dq=perigee page 335:

2002, Serge Brunier, Solar System Voyage, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-80724-1, http://books.google.com/books?id=JkLxJOhEj-wC&pg=PA36&dq=perigee page 36:

2010, Ruth Walker and Mary M. Shaffrey et al., Exploring Space: The High Frontier, Jones & Bartlett Learning, ISBN 978-0-7637-8961-9, http://books.google.com/books?id=7Ux61eRFS_YC&pg=PA129&dq=perigee page 129:

puhekieltä The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is closest to the Earth.