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The small cross indicates the position of the Earth when at perihelion in early January.
The radius vector is shortest when the planet is at perihelion and longest at aphelion.
At perihelion, when proper motion reaches its maximum, it exceeds the diurnal motion, and the Sun turns slowly retrograde for a week.
There is a small periodic effect called nutation superimposed on precession caused by the motion of the perihelion of the Moon.
He calculated to within a month the return in 1759 of Halley's comet to its perihelion.
Maximum gravitation force occurs when a syzygy and perigee occur on the same day as perihelion.
Saturn in Cancer at the time of the perihelion inclines you to deal with issues of home, family, security, finances, and relationships.
With aching finality, the moon unseen reached its perihelion in the sky and the hour sounded the twelve chimes of middle night.
I'm not trying to calculate the perihelion of Jupiter or do 3D renderings of the National Cathedral.
The Sun keeps a tight rein on Mercury this month because the planet's greatest elongation falls on the day before its perihelion, when it is physically closest to the Sun.
In this way in approximately 9.800 years, the Earth will pass in perihelion on June 21th at the time of the summer solstice.
The sum of the angles subtended at S by the arcs VN and NA is called the longitude of the perihelion.
The date of passage of the Earth in perihelion and that of passage in aphelion advance in our calendar.
But it's not that simple either, because the dates of the perihelion and aphelion are also shifting.
It goes without saying that the orbit of the moon would vary in accordance, expanding towards perihelion and contracting towards aphelion.
Pluto, which has the greatest orbital eccentricity of any of the Solar System planets, was during those years at perihelion and actually closer than Neptune to the Sun.
This position is called perihelion and occurs every year around the beginning of January.
We proved the validity of both the progress of the perihelion of Mercury and of the bending of light close the sun with the Maxwell Analogy.
It is perhaps not occasional that Mercury's perihelion advance is for Einstein the reference to justify the General Relativity Theory.
We see therefore that the wrong Lorentz gauge nevertheless finds a correct solution for Mercury's perihelion and for the bending by the sun.
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When at its perihelion it was moving with a velocity of 300 miles per second!
The denser portion of the meteoric stream was then approaching its perihelion.
In the orbit of a planet, means the line joining its aphelion and perihelion.
At present the earth is about three millions of miles nearer the sun in perihelion than in aphelion.
It had previously been an asteroid too remote to be seen even in perihelion.
The time of a complete revolution of the perihelion is computed at 108,000 years.
Within ten days of its appearance the comet reached its perihelion.
The perihelion passage of 1456 was, until recently, the earliest known.
The perihelion passage of 1869 was made on the 30th of June.
After the perihelion it will not be visible in these parts of the world.
Every January, the earth is at perihelion, the closest to the sun for the year, and in July it is at aphelion, the farthest from the sun for the year.
A Perigee B Aphelion C Zenith D Perihelion All puzzles in this supplement are supplied by Sirius Media Services.
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