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perigee
(redirected from Perigeum)

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perigee (pĕr`ĭjē), point nearest the earth in the orbit of a body about the earth. See apsis apsis (pl. apsides), point in the orbit of a body where the body is neither approaching nor receding from another body about which it revolves. Any elliptical orbit has two apsides.
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See apogee.
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