pericentre
Britishnoun
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It arises from the ellipticity of the orbit, is zero at pericentre and apocentre, and reaches its greatest amount nearly midway between these points.
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The anomalistic revolution of a planet or other heavenly body is the revolution between two consecutive passages through the pericentre.
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Starting from the pericentre, it is completed on the return to the pericentre.
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If the pericentre is fixed, this is an actual revolution; but if it moves the anomalistic revolution is greater or less than a complete circumference.
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In astronomy the word denotes the angular distance of a body from the pericentre of the orbit in which it is moving.
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