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aphelion

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8 lettersPronunciation /əˈfiː.lɪ.ən/Part of speech nounSorted aehilnopStarts with AEnds with N0 clues
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  1. The point in an orbit farthest from the sun.

Word origin

From New Latin aphēlium (whence English aphelium, now displaced) + -ion (used in the names of other apsides). Aphelium was formed from Ancient Greek ἀπο- (apo-, prefix meaning ‘away, from, off’) + ἥλῐος (hḗlĭos, “the sun”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“the sun”)), modelled after New Latin apogaeum (“apogee”).

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  • [I]t follows from the theory of gravity, that the aphelia of Mercury, Venus, the Earth, and Mars, slightly progress.

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