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Jul 9, 2023 at 17:16 comment added The Rocket fan @DavidHammen I edited the question changing the word apophasis to apoapsis
Jul 9, 2023 at 17:15 history edited The Rocket fan CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jul 9, 2023 at 15:08 comment added David Hammen I'm going to downvote because this question does not address the concepts of opposition or pork chop plots.
Jul 9, 2023 at 14:46 comment added David Hammen The correct term is apoapsis rather than apophasis. This is a DYAC kind of thing. A lot of browsers know that "apophasis" is a word but do not know that "apoapsis" also is a word.
Jul 9, 2023 at 13:50 comment added notovny Longitude of the Ascending Node is not measured in the direction of the orbit's motion, because it's not measured in the orbital plane, It's measured in the reference plane. And for any elliptical orbit (and some parabolic and hyperbolic orbits) that isn't entirely within the reference plane, there are two points where the orbit crosses the reference plane,
Jul 9, 2023 at 12:40 history answered The Rocket fan CC BY-SA 4.0