hi, The Moon moves on an orbit which is not circular but elliptical, with the Earth at one focus. At one end of this ellipse it makes its closest approach to the Earth (356 410 km or 221 473 miles), known as perigee. At the other end it reaches its greatest separation (406 697 km or 252 722 miles), called apogee. The period between successive perigees or apogees is called the anomalistic month, equal to 27.56 days. hope this may help. regards, prateek agarwal. cell: 09928341197 skype: prateek_agarwal32 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.prateekagarwal.webs.com to join the mailing list for my website, just send a blank mail keeping subject as "join" at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---------- Original message ---------- From: Syed the Gadgeteer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "\"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" c;" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:16:25 -0800 Subject: [AI] what could this "Paragee" or "Appogee be"? Hi folks: I get to read a lot about Chandrayan1 these days, but when they say "The Chandrayan1's paragee is ___" or "its appogee is ____", I don't understand a thing as to what this paragee or appogee be. So I just wanted to know how I'm to understand this concept so that I can share it with others too. Thanks and regards Syed Imran To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
