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perigee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Perigee is a type of apsis: an
extreme point in an object's orbit.
Perigee may also
refer to:
Perigee: Publication...
- A
supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that
nearly coincides with
perigee—the
closest that the Moon
comes to the
Earth in its
elliptic orbit—resulting...
- Tarcher
Perigee is a book
publisher and
imprint of
Penguin Group focused primarily on mind, body and
spiritualism titles,
founded in 1973 by
Jeremy P....
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Perigee Aerospace is a
private developer and
manufacturer of
orbital and sub-orbital
launch vehicles located in Daejeon,
South Korea. The
company was...
- The
Holcomb Perigee was a
prototype sportsplane built in the
United States in 1987 by
Jerry Holcomb.
Originally known as the Ultra-IMP, it was a refinement...
- Moon's two
apsides are the ****hest point, apogee, and the
nearest point,
perigee, of its
orbit around the host Earth. Earth's two
apsides are the ****hest...
- but
elliptical orbits with
perigees at 100 km can
survive for long periods. In contrast,
Earth satellites with
perigees below 80 km are
highly unlikely...
- Alejandro,
Reynaldo (1985). The
Philippine Cookbook. New York, N.Y.:
Perigee Books. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-0-399-51144-8. De Meester, Fabien; Watson, Ronald...
- An
anomalistic month is the
average time the Moon
takes to go from
perigee to
perigee—the
point in the Moon's
orbit when it is
closest to Earth. An anomalistic...
- In
celestial mechanics, the
longitude of the periapsis, also
called longitude of the pericenter, of an
orbiting body is the
longitude (measured from the...