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aphelion

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aphelion (əfē`lēən, ăp'hē`–), point farthest from the sun in the orbit of a body about the sun. 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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aphelion
the point in its orbit when a planet or comet is at its greatest distance from the sun
aphelion [ə′fēl·yən]
(astronomy)
The point on a planetary orbit farthest from the sun.
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But this heat, which is sufficient to evaporate the waters, would have formed a thick ring of cloud, which would have modified that excessive temperature; hence the compensation between the cold of the aphelion and the heat of the perihelion.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons, with ordinary opportunity and not hurled into aphelion by hatred, could not have seen.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
 
 
 
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