Aphelion used in a sentence

Aphelion in a sentence as a noun

For reference, that's about three times the distance of Pluto at aphelion.

All you need is for the aphelion to be well inside the sun itself, and the sun will take care of turning the energy into raw heat.

You just can't get the orbit close enough to plasma-brake near perihelion without also pushing your aphelion way out.

Then you can use your infinite delta-v to match your aphelion with Mercury, and can do an efficient capture trajectory.

This could be measured to some extent without leaving the earth, since the distance to the sun varies by about 3% between perihelion and aphelion.

Its orbit is highly elliptical: at perihelion it's closer than Mercury, and aphelion further than Mars.

When it gets to aphelion it's not moving fast enough to stay there, so you need another injection of delta-vee to increase the speed to maintain the new orbit.

You'd need an injection of delta-vee to move to an elliptical orbit where perihelion is the current distance, and aphelion is the desired distance.

And the length of the solar day also varies over the year due to the slight eccentricity of Earth’s orbit—days near perihelion are slightly longer than near aphelion.

On this day, the Earth is roughly halfway from aphelion to perihelion, so experiences its greatest orbital acceleration.

Then, at aphelion, when the ship's orbital velocity is lowest, you reduce the ship's orbital velocity to drop it's perihelion inside the sun.

It is kind of weird to me that they say the Voyager craft are in interstellar space, when their distance in AU from the sun is a great deal less than the aphelion of Sedna's orbit and other sednoids.

The period between solar noons oscillates and varies up to tens of seconds away from precisely 12 hours, thanks to the differing orbital speed of the Earth between perihelion and aphelion.

You inadvertently gave the solution: "lunar apoapsis", "solar apoapsis", "earth apoapsis".Much easier than "aposelene/apocynthion/apolune", "aphelion", "apogee".

FTA: "the comet's aphelion, the point where it is farthest from the Sun, should remain near the ecliptic"I would expect that all cometary orbits would intersect the ecliptic near the middle of their orbits, and that they would get furthest from the ecliptic at perihelion and aphelion.