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How to pronounce “periastron”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of periastron with real speech in context.
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- Building a Galaxy-Scale Gravitational Wave Detector
the shift of the periastron.
- Definition summary
- (astronomy) That point of the orbit of a celestial body which is closest to the star around which the body is orbiting.
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How to pronounce periastron
Building a Galaxy-Scale Gravitational Wave Detector

the shift of the periastron.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (astronomy) That point of the orbit of a celestial body which is closest to the star around which the body is orbiting.
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