Sentence example with the word 'perihelion'

perihelion

Definition n. periapsis in solar orbit

Last update: June 28, 2015


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An Anomalistic year is the time (365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, 48 seconds) in which the earth (and similarly for any other planet) passes from perihelion to perihelion, or from any given value of the anomaly to the same again.   [Please select]

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And each year its summer point shifted a little further from perihelion round its path.   [Please select]

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The photograph was made last December, when I was, so to speak, at my perihelion in the matter of avoirdupois.   [Please select]

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The comet returned at the appointed time; and on the 12th of March, 1759, reached its perihelion.   [Please select]

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And as the precession of the equinoxes goes on, a time will come when the summer-winter position will come not at aphelion and perihelion, but at the half-way points between them.   [Please select]

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When the summer of one hemisphere happens at perihelion and the winter at aphelion, it will be clear that the summer of the other hemisphere will happen at aphelion and its winter at perihelion.   [Please select]

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