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Apoapsis

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Noun
  1. 1
    The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
  2. 2
    (astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited wordnet

Etymology

From apo- + apsis.

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