periastra
See also: Periastra
English
Noun
periastra
- plural of periastron
- 1988 January 19, D. V. Gal’tsov; É. Masar, “Motion of bodies in Schwarzschild spacetime with conical singularities”, in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, volume 80, published August 1989:
- […] apoastra (i) and the circle of the periastra (2).
- 1999 April 22, Jack J. Lissauer, “Three planets for Upsilon Andromedae”, in Nature, volume 398, Macmillan Magazines Ltd, figure 1, page 659, column 2:
- The rest of the plot shows the temporal evolution of the periastra and apoastra of the three planets using the nominal parameters on the left as initial conditions.
- 2010, Imke de Pater; Jack J. Lissauer, “Exoplanet Formation Models”, in Planetary Sciences, second edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, figure 13.28, page 547, column 2:
- The planets’ masses are given in units of M⊕ and the periastra, semimajor axes and apoastra are shown below.
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