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Definition of Perihelia
1. perihelion [n] - See also: perihelion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perihelia
Literary usage of Perihelia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"On the Distribution of Cometic perihelia. By AS DAVIS, B.Á. The hypothesis that
those comets whose orbits are undistinguishable from parabolas are moving in ..."
2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1861)
"On the Distribution of the perihelia of the Parabolic Comets in relation to the
... the perihelia would be found equally scattered through the heavens; ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"which approach most nearly to one, and live in their aphelia and perihelia
respectively. The two independent results were as follows:— )"rt)QA i G3'846 f ..."
4. A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics by George Farrer Rodwell (1871)
"Aa regards the distribution of the cometió perihelia, there seems to be a ...
The following table indicates the proportional number of perihelia found ..."
5. A Treatise on Astronomy by John Frederick William Herschel (1851)
"... Motion—Invariability of the Axes and Periods—Theory of the secular Variations
of the Eccentricities and perihelia—Motion of the lunar Apsides—Lagrange's ..."
6. The Collected Mathematical Works of George William Hill by George William Hill (1906)
"... Determination of the Second-Order Terms in the Secular Motions of the
Eccentricities and perihelia of Jupiter and Saturn. (Astronomical Journal, Vol. ..."
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