aposelene

Definitions

Apoapsis around the moon.

Equivalents

Examples

“At its aposelene the Projectile's velocity would have⟳ reached its minimum; at the periselene, its maximum.”

“It was injected smoothly into a translunar trajectory and when it reached the moon on 10th April it went into a moon orbit with a periselene of 160km, aposelene of 870km, inclination of 42 degrees and period of orbit of 2 hours and 40 minutes.”

“The satellite was placed in an elliptical orbit that passed over the polar regions of the Moon, with 7502 km aposelene (point⟳ farthest away from the Moon) and 504 km periselene (nearest to the Moon).”

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