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perikrone en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + Κρόνος (Krónos, “Saturn”).

Meanings

1. Periapsis around the planet Saturn.
   • Cassini perikrones (periapses at Saturn), sometimes including emissions between the gyroharmonic bands above fuh. 2006, M. Moncuquet, N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux, B. Cecconi, W.S. Kurth, Quasi Thermal Noise in Bernstein Waves at Saturn:
   • We report 5 kHz narrowband Z mode emissions observed by the Cassini Radio and Plasma Waves Science (RPWS) instrument during high latitude perikrone passes. 2012, Issues in Earth Sciences, Geology, and Geophysics, →ISBN:
   • The original plan in the primary mission to look for the existence of an internal liquid layer called for four flybys to measure the Love number k₂: two equatorial passes -- one when Titan was at perikrone and one at apokrone, and two inclined passes – also at perikrone and apokrone. 2009, Robert Brown, Jean Pierre Lebreton, Jack Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens, →ISBN, page 459:
   • In order to obtain the value of k₂ with high accuracy, four flybys of the Cassini spacecraft will be devoted to measuring Titan's gravity field near both apokrone and perikrone (Castillo et al., 2002). 2010, Tilman Spohn, Planets and Moons: Treatise on Geophysics, →ISBN, page 531:

Forms

Relateds

periapsis

Synonyms

perisaturnium