Aphelion is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 345 anagrams from letters in aphelion (aehilnop).
1650-60; Hellenized form of New Latin aphēlium Greek *aphḗlion (diástēma) off-sun (distance), neuter of *aphḗlios (adj.), equivalent to ap- ap-2 + hḗli(os) s
It will not return before the 38th century, and will only reach its aphelion about the year 2800.
In the orbit of a planet, means the line joining its aphelion and perihelion.
The motion of Newton's comet at aphelion may be equally slight.
The Earth when nearest to the Sun, is in her perihelion; when most distant, in her aphelion.
It may, perhaps, be far advanced in its aphelion,—but when to return?
The apogee of the sun is synonymous with the aphelion of the earth.
aphelion, that point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun.
At present the earth is about three millions of miles nearer the sun in perihelion than in aphelion.
After the fourth go round he was fully five diameters out at aphelion.
An irregularity in the motion of a planet by which it deviates from the aphelion or apogee.
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