periselenium
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
periselenium (uncountable)
- (astronomy) The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the moon's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its minimum.
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- 2004, Science and Technology Series, volume 108, American Astronautical Society, page 162:
- Hence, the Earth gravity allows the decrease of the particle energy from zero to a negative value and its capture by the moon to an elliptical orbit, e.g., with a periselenium of ~2,000 km and a high aposelenium of ~70,000h km.