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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APHELION (from Gr. asro, from, and See also:Otter, See also:sun)  , in See also:astronomy, that point of the See also:orbit of a See also:planet at which it is most distant from the See also:sun . Apogee, Apocentre, Aposaturnium, &c. are terms applied, to those points of the orbit of a See also:body moving around a centre of force—as the See also:Earth, See also:Saturn, &c.—at which it is farthest from the central body .

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