In article ,
Damon Hill wrote:
(* Pedantically it should be something like perihermion, but I'm inclined
to just use "perigee" as generic for planets. )

Periapsis and apoapsis? See also "apsis".

*Too* generic. Sometimes it is useful to have different (unambiguous)
words for perigee and perihelion, for example,
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