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   JF Mezei pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   > On 2021-02-26 21:25, Sylvia Else wrote:   
      
   >> Side note on terminology - perigee is specifically the lowest point in   
   >> an orbit about Earth. There is the term pericynthion for the   
   >> corresponding point near the Moon. The generic term is periapsis.   
   >   
   > Thanks. learn something every day.  What is the historical reason to not   
   > use apogee/perigee for orbits around any body ?   
      
   Perhaps the observation that the "gee" comes from "geo" thus from   
   Gaea/Gaia.  "apsis" seems to come from "orbit", again dipping into   
   Greek roots.   
      
   /dps   
      
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