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PAER-uh-hee-lee-uhn
noun
a planet's orbital position at which point it is nearest to the sun
1909Curiosities of the SkyThen the facts were made plain that comets are subject to the law of gravitation equally with the planets; that there are many which regularly return to the neighborhood of the sun (perihelion)… 1951The Sands of MarsHe finally gave up halfway through the book after coming across a page where the only sentence was 'Substituting for the value of perihelion distance from Equation 15.3, we obtain ...' All else was mathematics.1989London Fields...perihelion (when the earth is at its shortest distance from the sun)…Labels: Arthur C. Clarke, Garrett P. Serviss, Martin Amis
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