Usually means: Lowest point in lunar orbit.
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  6. perilune: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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▸ noun:  (astronomy) The point of an elliptical lunar orbit where the distance between the satellite and the Moon is at its minimum.

Similar:
periselene, apolune, pericynthion, perigee, pericenter, perihelion, perihelium, perigalacticum, apoherm, periherm, more...

Types:
periselene, periapsis, apogee, perigee, more...

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Similar:
periselene, apolune, pericynthion, perigee, pericenter, perihelion, perihelium, perigalacticum, apoherm, periherm, more...

Types:
periselene, periapsis, apogee, perigee, more...



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