aphelion


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Antonyms for aphelion

apoapsis in solar orbit

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The orbital distance of Venus (Perihelion=0.71844 and Aphelion = 0.728213 astronomical units) corresponds precisely to the main attractor node [54; ro] of the electron calibrated F (10):
Despite strong opposition from the athletics federation of India, SAI gave Inderjeet the nod in November last year to train at the Aphelion Athletics Club in Pennsylvania.
The obtained results from Aphelion Dev software have been shown in the table 1 and 2.
As he suggests with his poem "Aphelion & Aphasia" this is the central--yet nearly impossible--task of poetry.
The new financing includes equity participation from existing investors Stanmore Medical Investments, Aphelion Capital and other existing private partners, and the establishment of a new debt facility with Silicon Valley Bank, company executives said.
Because the sensitive, unpredictable atmosphere is detached from solid Earth and thus will always lag behind the rotation of the Earth-plus the cyclic orbit of the Earth from perihelion to aphelion, etc., (like a vehicle making a 360-degree curve)-the orbital motion upsets and ruffles the atmosphere.
A Perigee B Aphelion C Zenith D Perihelion All puzzles in this supplement are supplied by Sirius Media Services.
It appears to have been a relatively ordinary Apollo asteroid having a perihelion distance of 0.8AU and aphelion of 2.5AU.
Every January, the earth is at perihelion, the closest to the sun for the year, and in July it is at aphelion, the farthest from the sun for the year.
The comet's aphelion distance (farthest point from the sun) extends out near the orbit of Jupiter and its orbit has been perturbed several times by the giant planet's gravitational pull over the past 200 years.
Al Ain: The earth was on Thursday at the most distant point of the year from the Sun, called Aphelion, but yet it was one of the hottest days in emirates with mercury shooting up to 48 degree Celsius in some internal areas.