perigee

How To Use perigee In A Sentence

• To-day I became strongly impressed with the idea, that the balloon was now actually running up the line of apsides to the point of perigee -- in other words, holding the direct course which would bring it immediately to the moon in that part of its orbit the nearest to the earth. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
• Consequently the force of gravity at perigee is not enough to hold it in a circular orbit.
• Not just because I do know the inverse square law (the difference between perigee and apogee, between catalepsy and cataplexy, distal and proxal, etc, etc, etc) and they maybe dont ... but because I can only consider anyone who "looks down on" anyone, regardless of what they do or dont know as a veritable "mousehole". On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• Maximum gravitation force occurs when a syzygy and perigee occur on the same day as perihelion.
• The satellite will thus be altering its speed at different times in its orbit and will have a maximum speed at perigee and minimum at apogee.
• Whereas the synodic period is 29.53 days, it takes 27.5 days for the moon to move in its elliptical orbit from perigee to perigee.
• A few taps on the pocket calculator show that the Moon's speed in its geocentric orbit is around 2,300 miles per hour, although variable between perigee and apogee.
• The spacecraft enters into a more eccentric orbit, however the height and position of perigee remains the same.
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• A spacecraft passing through its perigee point is moving faster than an equivalent craft on a circular orbit of the same radius.