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Definition of Apojove
1. Noun. Apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter.
Definition of Apojove
1. Noun. (astronomy) the spot that is the farthest away from the planet Jupiter in the orbit of each of its own satellites; apoapsis around Jupiter ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apojove
Literary usage of Apojove
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gravitation: An Elementary Explanation of the Principal Perturbations in the by George Biddell Airy (1884)
"... the apojove of the second satellite is in the direction of the points of
conjunction, both the disturbing force, directed to the central body at ..."
2. Hand-books of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy by Dionysius Lardner (1858)
"If we consider s' as disturbed by s", either the perijove or apojove of s' (as
the apsides of the satellites are called,) may be in conjunction with s". ..."
3. Handbooks of Natural Philosophy & Astronomy: Third Course, Meteorology by Dionysius Lardner (1858)
"If we consider s' as disturbed by s", cither the perijove or apojove of s' (as
the apsides of the satellites are called,) may be in conjunction with s". ..."
4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1838)
"If the apojove of the first satellite «ero in the direction of the points of
conjunction, the disturbing force in the direction ..."
5. Astronomy Without Mathematics by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1883)
"Therefore also each moon is less accelerated at apojove than perijove; and that
comparative loss of attraction at apojove makes their apses advance, ..."
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