perilune

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The point of an elliptical lunar orbit where the distance between the satellite and the Moon is at its minimum.

perilune perilunes

From peri- + Latin lūna (“moon”).

pericynthion periselene

apolune

periapsis

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