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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 Otter, sun)

APHELION (from Gr. asro, from, and
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OTTER
OTTER (0. Eng. ate, otor, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch and Ger. Otter, Dan. odder, Swed. utter; it is to be referred to the root seen in Gr. 6&ep, water)
OTTER, SEA
Otter,
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SUN
SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)
sun) , in

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ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, that point of the

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ORBIT (from Lat. orbita, a track, orbis, a wheel)

orbit of a

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PLANET (Gr. ssXavirrns, a wanderer)

planet at which it is most distant from the

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sun . Apogee, Apocentre, Aposaturnium, &c. are terms applied, to those points of the orbit of a

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BODY

body moving around a centre of force—as the

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Earth,

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Saturn, &c.—at which it is farthest from the central body .

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