Perigee vs Moon - What's the difference?
perigee | moon |
(astronomy) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is closest to the Earth: the periapsis of an Earth orbiter.
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(astronomy, more generally) The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is closest to the planet: the periapsis of any satellite.
* 1995 , John H. Rogers, The Giant Planet Jupiter , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-41008-3,
* 2002 , Serge Brunier, Solar System Voyage , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-80724-1,
* 2010 , Ruth Walker and Mary M. Shaffrey et al., Exploring Space: The High Frontier , Jones & Bartlett Learning, ISBN 978-0-7637-8961-9,
(possibly, archaic, outside, astrology) The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is closest to the Earth.
The largest satellite of Earth.
Any natural satellite of a planet.
(literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.
* {{quote-book
, year=1737
, author=John Brickell
, title=The natural history of North-Carolina
, page=308-309
, passage=The number their age by Moons' or Winters, and say a Woman or a Man is so many '''Moons''' old, and so they do with all memorable Actions in life, accounting it to be so many '''Moons or Winters since such or such a thing happened. ''Note: in earlier modern English, many nouns were capitalized, similar to present day German. }}
* {{quote-book
, year=1822
, author=Thomas Love Peacock
, title=Maid Marian
, page=238
, passage=Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood.}}
A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
(colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest
(colloquial) (usually followed by'' over''' ''or'' ' after ) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
* 1898 , Joseph Conrad,
To expose to the rays of the Moon.
* Holland
As a noun perigee
is perigee (point in the orbit of any object).As a proper noun moon is
the earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by.perigee
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(en noun)page 335:
- Conjunctions of I and II [Io and Europa] occur when they are near perigee' and apogee respectively; conjunctions of II and III [Europa and Ganymede] occur when II [Europa] is near ' perigee .
page 36:
- The resolution of the images obtained by this American probe [Messenger] will depend on its altitude [above Mercury] at any one time: about ten meters at perigee (200km altitude), but only one 1 km at apogee (15000km).
page 129:
- [Nereid’s] apogee—farthest point from Neptune—is five times the distance of its perigee —its closest point.
Derived terms
* perigee moonAntonyms
* apogeeSee also
* periapsis, periastron, perihelionmoon
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(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (sense, Earth's largest natural satellite) Moon * (natural satellite of a planet) satellite, natural satellite * (month) calendar month, lunar month, month * See alsoDerived terms
* blood moon * blue moon * crescent moon * full moon * half-moon, half moon * harvest moon * howl at the moon * hung the moon * hunter's moon * man in the moon * moon bear * moon-blind * moon cake * mooncalf * moon-face * moonfish * moonflower * moon guitar * mooning * moonish * moonlight * moonlit * moonly * moon pool * moonraker * moonsail * moonwalk * moonwort * moon zither * new moon * old moon * once in a blue moon * over the moon * phase of the moon * smuggler's moon * thumbnail moon * waning moon * waxing moonVerb
(en verb)- Sarah mooned over Sam's photograph for months.
- You've been mooning after her forever, why not just ask her out?
- We were only three on board. The poor old skipper mooned in the cabin.
- If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned .