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line of apsides

noun

Astronomy.
  1. the major axis of an elliptical orbit.


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Change of line of apsides; period about 21,000 years.

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The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

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The “line of apsides†is that which joins them, forming the major axis of the orbit.

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That is to say, he assumed a revolving line of apsides in an elliptical orbit traversed by a pretty strongly compressed pair of globes.

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The time of revolution of a primary or secondary planet in reference to its line of apsides; that is, from one perigee or apogee to another.

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