perigee
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Two clients are preparing rockets to carry satellites into orbit from northern Sweden: South Korea's Perigee; and American company, Firefly, which achieved a lunar landing last year.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
To solve this problem, the researchers developed a decentralized and lightweight algorithm called "Dual Perigee."
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026
Very interesting and maybe significant is that the unusually close Perigee full moon was right overhead when the first quake struck.
From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2016
Excerpted from Alternate Histories of the World by Matthew Buchholz, out now from Perigee.
From Slate • Oct. 22, 2013
Perigee, the point in the orbit of the moon or a planet nearest the earth.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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