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Bible Encyclopedias
Aphelion
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from Gr. a7rb, from, and i i iXtos, sun), in astronomy, that point of the orbit of a planet at which it is most distant from the sun. Apogee, Apocentre, Aposaturnium, &c. are terms applied to those points of the orbit of a body moving around a. centre of force - as the Earth, Saturn, &c. - at which it is farthest from the central body.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Aphelion'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/aphelion.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Aphelion'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/aphelion.html. 1910.
