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The development of Aphelion started in 1995 as a joint project of a French company, ADCIS S.A., [2] and an American company, Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc. (AAI) [3] Aphelion's image processing and analysis functions were made from operators available from the KBVision software developed and sold by Amerinex's predecessor, Amerinex Artificial Intelligence Inc.
The apsides refer to the farthest (2) and nearest (3) points reached by an orbiting planetary body (2 and 3) with respect to a primary, or host, body (1). An apsis (from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís) 'arch, vault'; pl. apsides / ˈ æ p s ɪ ˌ d iː z / AP-sih-deez) [1] [2] is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body.
This is a list of Solar System objects by greatest aphelion or the greatest distance from the Sun that the orbit could take it if the Sun and object were the only objects in the universe. It is implied that the object is orbiting the Sun in a two-body solution without the influence of the planets, passing stars, or the galaxy.
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Simple English; سنڌي; Slovenčina ... Historically, the astronomical unit was conceived as the average Earth-Sun distance (the average of Earth's aphelion and ...
From helios comes the modern English prefix helio-, meaning "pertaining to the Sun", used in compounds word such as heliocentrism, aphelion, heliotropium, heliophobia (fear of the sun) and heliolatry ("sun-worship").
2019 AQ 3 's orbit has the third-smallest aphelion of any known asteroid in the Solar System, never distancing itself more than 0.774 AU from the Sun (77% of Earth's average orbital distance). [6] Before its discovery, the record was held by (418265) 2008 EA 32 at an aphelion of 0.804 AU, which is notably larger.
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