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As a planet approachesperiapsis, the planet will increase in speed, or velocity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Particularly at eachperiapsis, the object experiences atmospheric drag, losing energy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For near-circular orbits, it is hard to find theperiapsisin the first place (and truly circular orbits have noperiapsisat all).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The last time they were atperiapsiswas in 1836.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The ecliptic longitudes of theperiapsisof the satellite and the planet are locked.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The initial, high eccentricity orbits may also be a source of gravitational waves, emitting a short burst as the compact object passes throughperiapsis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It had aperiapsisof 171 km and an apoapsis of 3,524 km and an orbital period of 619 minutes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These variations are connected with the variations of the ring width, which is 19.7 km at theperiapsisand 96.4 km at the apoapsis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When gradually making an elliptic orbit smaller, it means applying thrust each time when near theperiapsis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With increasing release height the orbit becomes less eccentric as bothperiapsisand apoapsis increase, becoming circular at geostationary level.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The angular rate is faster nearerperiapsisand slower near apoapsis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thereafter, theperiapsiswas allowed to rise to a maximum of and then fall, to conserve fuel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The point on the orbit closest to the attracting body is theperiapsis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When gradually making an elliptic orbit larger, it means applying thrust each time when near theperiapsis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So to get the most kinetic energy from the burn, the burn must occur at the vehicle's maximum velocity, atperiapsis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Adding the argument ofperiapsisto the longitude of the ascending node gives the longitude of theperiapsis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A line drawn fromperiapsisto apoapsis is the line-of-apsides.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For the most efficient example mentioned above, targeting an inclination at apoapsis also changes the argument ofperiapsis.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A straight line connecting theperiapsisand apoapsis is the "line of apsides".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.