Crossword-Solution: APHELIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aphelia | pl. | of Aphelion |
We have 8 clues for the answer “APHELIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Far points in solar orbits | 1 answer |
| Far-out orbital points | 1 answer |
| Furthest orbital points | 1 answer |
| Highest orbital points | 1 answer |
| Orbital extremes (variant spelling) | 1 answer |
| Points in orbits of planets. | 1 answer |
| Orbital extremes | 2 answers |
| Darken | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APHELIA (5)
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 Jupiter or of Saturn, as to permit these giant planets to act as secondary rulers of their destinies.
Periodical comets are evidently bodies which have each lived through a chapter of accidents, and a significant hint as to the nature of their adventures can be gathered from the fact that their aphelia are pretty closely grouped about the tracks of the major planets.
They gave him a virtually identical situation for the new planet with that derived from the clustering of cometary aphelia.[1149] Yet its assigned distance was little more than half that of the nearer of Professor Forbes's remote pair, and it completed a revolution in 375 instead of 1,000 years.
Moreover, a large majority of comets would then have their aphelia in the direction of the sun's motion, and therefore their perihelia in the opposite direction.
The extremes of temperature at perihelia and aphelia to which comets are subjected did not bother him particularly.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1945–2010).