aposaturnium
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From apo- + Saturn + -ium, Latin form of -ion.
Noun
[edit]aposaturnium (plural not attested)
- (astronomy) Apoapsis around Saturn
- 2013, B.A. Steves, Archie E. Roy, The Dynamics of Small Bodies in the Solar System, →ISBN:
- If they were exactly following such a periodic solution, then, at a conjunction of the two satellites, that is, when φ = 0, we would have l1= 0, that is, Enceladus, which is on the inner of the two orbits, would be at perisaturnium, and alsol2= π, so that Dione, which is on the outer of the two orbits, would be at aposaturnium.
Related terms
[edit]- see apoapsis