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the moment something stops climbing and the only direction left is down.
means The highest or most distant point of something — literally the point in an orbit farthest from Earth, and figuratively the peak of achievement or intensity.
from From Greek 'apogaion,' a blend of 'apo' (away from) and 'gaia' (Earth) — literally 'away from the Earth.' Greek astronomers used it for the point in the Moon's orbit where it swings farthest from us. It traveled through Latin into English as a stargazer's term in the late 1500s, and from there drifted skyward into metaphor: the farthest, highest reach of anything.
- orbital meaning
- the farthest point of an orbit from Earth
- greek roots
- from apo, meaning away from earth
- moon's reach
- its apogee sits roughly 405,000 km out
- shrinking supermoon
- an apogee full moon looks 14% smaller
- figurative peak
- also means the climax of anything
apollo 11 lunar orbit — reached 249.2 km altitude above the moon on july 20, 1969
international space station — orbits at apogee of 435 km above earth's surface