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Perigee

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

That point in the orbit of the moon or other body orbiting the earth which is nearest to the earth opposed to apogee It is sometimes but rarely used of the nearest points of bodies not orbiting the earth such as of a comet a planet etc Called also epigee epigeum

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