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- noun Plural form of
aphelion .
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Examples
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The traverses change all the time, depending on the perihelions and aphelions of individual asteroids.
A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997
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Gravitation towards the sun is made up out of the gravitations towards the several particles of which the body of the sun is composed; and in receding from the sun decreases accurately in the duplicate proportion of the distances as far as the orb of Saturn, as evidently appears from the quiescence of the aphelions of the planets; nay, and even to the remotest aphelions of the comets, if those aphelions are also quiescent.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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These are comets having aphelions varying between 4 and 6 AU.
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