cytherocentric

English

Etymology

From Cythera +‎ -centric.

Adjective

cytherocentric (comparative more cytherocentric, superlative most cytherocentric)

1. (astronomy, rare) Having Venus at the center.

   Hypernym: planetocentric

   a cytherocentric coordinate system

   a cytherocentric orbit

   • 1979, Solar System Today‎^[1], volumes 1-3, Bretmain:

     Pioneer 12's initial cytherocentric orbit inclied 105 degrees to Venus' equator[…]

   • 2019, Kattakuri, Vikranth R., Failures in Spacecraft Systems: An Analysis from the Perspective of Decision Making‎^[2], West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, page 32:

     During Cytherocentric orbit insertion, Akatsuki malfunctioned and failed to enter orbit. It managed to orbit around Venus five years later[.]

   • 2022 March, Albino Carbognani, Paolo Tanga, Fabrizio Bernardi, “Is 2021 PH27 an active asteroid with a meteor shower detectable on Venus?”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters‎^[3], volume 511, number 1, 3 - Observation of 2021 PH27: 3.1 - Visibility of a hypothetical meteor shower, page L42:

     The cytherocentric velocity vector of the meteoroids reaching Venus is given by the difference between the heliocentric velocity vectors of the meteoroids and Venus.

Translations

Translations

• French: cythérocentrique
• Italian: citerocentrico
• Russian: цитероцентрический (citerocentričeskij)

See also

• heliocentric (the Sun), hermeocentric (Mercury), cytherocentric (Venus), geocentric (the Earth), selenocentric (the Moon), areocentric (Mars), zenocentric (Jupiter), cronocentric (Saturn), uranocentric (Uranus), planetocentric (a planet), astrocentric (a star), galactocentric (a galaxy)