Associations to the word «Pericenter»

Wiktionary

PERICENTER, noun. (astronomy) The periapsis, the point of closest approach of an astronomical object in an elliptical orbit to its center of attraction.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope