Point on an orbit furthest from the sun.
1 The Engineers would have given them an orbital aphelion inside the Ring.
2 It may, perhaps, be far advanced in its aphelion . - But when to return?
3 Close to its aphelion right now, fifteen AUs from the sun.
4 After the fourth go round he was fully five diameters out at aphelion .
5 The motion of Newton's comet at aphelion may be equally slight.
6 You may trust women to know when he is in peri-and when in aphelion .
7 Four hours later, they recovered her quarterdeck section from the aphelion of a long elliptic orbit.
8 And there they were, seven times seven of them, slipping past like a train of comets approaching aphelion .
9 It is in aphelion that the corona appears most splendid;
10 Distance from the sun, perihelion, 457,000,000 miles; aphelion , 503,000,000 miles.
11 An increase in eccentricity would merely shorten the journey, if aphelion always coincided with opposition, which it would not.
12 When the earth is nearest the sun she is at her perihelion, and at her aphelion when most distant.
13 Gallia had reached its aphelion .
14 The Earth rushed past the perihelion and began its sixth journey to the aphelion , allowing humankind's taut nerves to relax.
15 They ventured into the void beyond Pluto's aphelion for hundreds of millions of kilometers -although not yet the stars.
16 The northern Ice-monarch has resumed absolute sway, and our aphelion distance from the sun has increased some tens millions of miles.
Другие примеры для термина "aphelion"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Translations for aphelion