apokron
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Noun[edit]
apokron (plural not attested)
- (rare) Alternative form of apokrone
- 2005 June, J.S. Leisner, C.T. Russell, K.K. Khurana, M.K. Dougherty, N. André, “Warm flux tubes in the E‐ring plasma torus: Initial Cassini magnetometer observations”, in Geophysical Research Letters:
- Both passes are inclined to the ring plane so that they are in the northern hemisphere near periapsis, or perikron, and in the southern hemisphere at apoapsis, or apokron.