Sentence example with the word 'aphelion'

aphelion

Definition n. apoapsis in solar orbit

Last update: October 3, 2015

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APHELION (from Gr.   [Please select]

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He repeated his calculations no fewer than seventy times (and that before the invention of logarithms), and at length adopted values for the mean longitude and longitude of aphelion.   [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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At its perihelion it travels thousands of leagues per minute; at its aphelion it does not pass over more than a few yards.   [Please select]

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