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It's the opposite - apogee is the point closest to the center of orbit, perigee is the farthest point.
by the_pwner224 7y ago
It's the opposite - apogee is the point closest to the center of orbit, perigee is the farthest point.
- perl4ever 7y agoWhy do you think that?
- accrual 7y agoApogee is the point furthest away in an orbit from the center of mass in relation to the Earth, perigee is the closest point. In the screenshot, the "active" blue orbit is nearly circular, so the Ap and Pe are similar and the eccentricity is small. Both grey orbits have a higher eccentricity with the periapsis being closest to the body (Kerbin) and the apoapsis being the most distant point, though neither are marked in the screenshot as they're not the actively selected orbit. I find "apoapsis" easy to remember due to it's similarity to the Latin "apex" [0]. Apoapsis: The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum. [1] Periapsis: The point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its minimum. [2] [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apex#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apex#Latin [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apoapsis#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apoapsis#Noun [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/periapsis#Noun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/periapsis#Noun
- the_pwner224 7y agoAh, looks like I got that all backwards. Been a few years since I last played KSP :) Too late to edit it now though...