Perijove = nearest point of a flyby of Jupiter. Cool word.
Background info:
An apsis (Greek: ἁψίς; plural apsides , Greek: ἁψῖδες) is an extreme point in an object's orbit. The word comes via Latin from Greek and is cognate with apse.
For elliptic orbits about a larger body, there are two apsides, named with the prefixes peri- (from περί (peri), meaning 'near') and ap-, or apo- (from ἀπ(ό) (ap(ó)), meaning 'away from') added to a reference to the thing being orbited.I wonder what colossal dose of radiation little Juno absorbed while zipping by that monstrous planet?
I wish Galileo and Copernicus were alive to see this.
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