Apogee and perigee?

The moon's orbit is elliptical. When the moon is at its farthest point from earth it is called the apogee. When it is closest to earth, it is called the perigee.

Planets move in orbits around the Sun. Sometimes they are closer, sometimes farther away. The point where a planet is closest to the Sun in its orbit is called perihelion; the farthest point from the...

Apogee: The point in the orbit of the moon or an artificial satellite where it's farthest from the earth. Perigee: The point in the orbit of the moon or an artificial satellite where it's closest to...

Apogee: "point at which the moon is farthest from the earth," 1590s, from Fr. apogée, from L. apogæum, from Gk. apogaion, neut. adj., "away from the earth," a term from Ptolemaic astronomy, from...

Apogee is the point at which the moon is farthest from the earth where as perigee is the point at which the moon is closest to the earth.