ap·o·gee n. 1. The point in the orbit of the moon or of an artificial satellite most distant from the center of the earth. 2. The point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited. 3. The...
An apogee is the point in the orbit of an object (such as a moon or a spacecraft) where it is furtherest from the center or surface of the object it is orbiting. The apogee of the moon is when it is...
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...
Mercury does not have an apogee, this term is reserved for natural satellites or moons around a planet. Aphelion is the planet equivalent. Mercury's aphelion is 69,816,900 km or 0.466 697 AU
Apogee is a place, not en event. Apogee is the point in the orbit of an Earthsatellite at which the satellite is farthest from the Earth. (Since all closed gravitational orbits are ellipses rather...