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Keywords: Perigee, Moon, Apogee, Nom, Tic

Related Terms: Perihelion, Orbit , Aphelion, Ephemeris, Libration, Lunation, Month, Perigee, Retrograde, Revolution , Sidereal, Synodic, Sidereal Time, Sidereal Day, Kuiper Belt, Solar Year, Oort Cloud, Orbiter, Lunar Month, Equation Of Time, Apollo Asteroid, Retrograde Motion, Sun-Synchronous Orbit, Solar Maximum, Solar Day, Solar Time, Synodic Period, Tropical Year, Barycenter, Elliptical Orbit, Orbital Period, Solar Minimum, Sidereal Month, Solar Calendar, Synodic Month, Solar Noon, Mean Solar Time, Sidereal Period, Apoapsis, Mean Sun, Kepler, Johannes, Sidereal Year, Synchronous Rotation, Lunar Day, Ephemeris Time, Kepler's Laws, Halley's Comet, Solar Return, Short-Period Comet, Prograde

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( a·NOM·a·lis·tic month). An anomalistic month is the time that the moon takes to go from perigee (the point nearest to the earth in the orbit of the moon) to perigee.

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The time required for the Moon to move around its orbit, from perigee to perigee.

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period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546 days

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A time interval between successive perigee passages of the moon.

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The time it takes for the Moon to travel from apogee to perigee and back again (about 27.6 days).

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