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Ephapse?

Robert Stonehouse ew65 at bcs.org.uk
Sun Sep 20 02:23:58 EST 1998


mentifex at scn.org (Mentifex) wrote:

>Thank you, Yves De Rop <Yves.De.Rop at village.uunet.be>, for asking:
>
>> Does someone knows what an ephapse is?

Apsis can also mean the orbit of a planet: might 'ephapse' be an
epicycle? In astronomy, it is the point of nearest and furthest
approach of a satellite to the body it orbits, e.g. apogee and
perigee for the moon. So could it be 'somewhere close to apogee'?
ew65 at bcs.org.uk



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