Usage examples (8)

• As it looks now, you would think there are two perihelia and two aphelia...
• Jupiter in aphelia in 2011, the strongest solar maximum per last 400 years - forecasted on 2011, 2012 even by official astronomers.
• Their aphelia -- or the farthest points of their orbits from the sun -- are usually, if not invariably, situated so near to the path either of
• The two last-named comets would likewise seem to have a period of revolution not exceeding five or six years, and their aphelia are in the vicinity of Jupiter's orbit.