I'm assuming autocorrect helpfully fixed "perigee" to "pedigree" for you. It's a nice little malapropism though. Anyway, minor point but "perigee" usually mean

I'm assuming autocorrect helpfully fixed "perigee" to "pedigree" for you. It's a nice little malapropism though. Anyway, minor point but "perigee" usually means closest approach to Earth; "-gee" is from the Greek for Earth (as is "geo-"). In the case of the sun, we have the word "perihelion", and for generic orbits around an object, you generally hear "periapsis". And just for completeness, I'll mention that the counterpoint to periapsis is apoapsis, with apogee and aphelion being the obvious specializations. There are more words in this pattern for various different objects; Wikipædia has all the gory details: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsis