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perikrone

noun

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + Κρόνος (Krónos, “Saturn”).

Definitions

  1. Periapsis around the planet Saturn.

    • Cassini perikrones (periapses at Saturn), sometimes including emissions between the gyroharmonic bands above fuh.
    • In order to obtain the value of k₂ with high accuracy, four flybys of the Cassini spacecraft will be devoted to measuring Titan's gravity field near both apokrone and perikrone (Castillo et al., 2002).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for perikrone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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