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Subject: perigee, apogee
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Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 19:55:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 19:55:00 1983
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From:  Hans Moravec <HPM@S1-A>

I vote for apogee and perigee as generic terms for orbits around any
body.  There is a similar need for a generic term for "geology",
"geochemistry", "geography", "geophysics", etc.  The conversion to
generic form of the "geo" root is already well established for words
like "geometry" and "geodesic".