perikrone

• perikron

From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + Κρόνος (Krónos, “Saturn”).

perikrone (plural perikrones)

1. Periapsis around the planet Saturn.
   • 2006, M. Moncuquet, N. Meyer-Vernet, A. Lecacheux, B. Cecconi, W.S. Kurth, Quasi Thermal Noise in Bernstein Waves at Saturn:

     Cassini perikrones (periapses at Saturn), sometimes including emissions between the gyroharmonic bands above fuh.

   • 2009, Robert Brown, Jean Pierre Lebreton, Jack Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens, →ISBN, page 459:

     The original plan in the primary mission to look for the existence of an internal liquid layer called for four flybys to measure the Love number k₂: two equatorial passes -- one when Titan was at perikrone and one at apokrone, and two inclined passes – also at perikrone and apokrone.

   • 2010, Tilman Spohn, Planets and Moons: Treatise on Geophysics, →ISBN, page 531:

     In order to obtain the value of k₂ with high accuracy, four flybys of the Cassini spacecraft will be devoted to measuring Titan's gravity field near both apokrone and perikrone (Castillo et al., 2002).

   • 2012, Issues in Earth Sciences, Geology, and Geophysics, →ISBN:

     We report 5 kHz narrowband Z mode emissions observed by the Cassini Radio and Plasma Waves Science (RPWS) instrument during high latitude perikrone passes.

• perisaturnium

• see periapsis