aposaturnium

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English

Noun

aposaturnium (plural not attested)

  1. (astronomy) Apoapsis around Saturn
    • 2013, B.A. Steves, Archie E. Roy, The Dynamics of Small Bodies in the Solar System, →ISBN:
      If they were exactly following such a periodic solution, then, at a conjunction of the two satellites, that is, when φ = 0, we would have l1= 0, that is, Enceladus, which is on the inner of the two orbits, would be at perisaturnium, and alsol2= π, so that Dione, which is on the outer of the two orbits, would be at aposaturnium.