perigee
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Two clients are preparing rockets to carry satellites into orbit from northern Sweden: South Korea's Perigee; and American company, Firefly, which achieved a lunar landing last year.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
Rather than relying on random connections, a device using Dual Perigee evaluates its peers based on how quickly they deliver transactions and full blocks.
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026
Very interesting and maybe significant is that the unusually close Perigee full moon was right overhead when the first quake struck.
From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2016
Tarcher, is today part of the Tarcher Perigee imprint of Penguin Random House, based in New York.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2015
Perigee, the point in the orbit of the moon or a planet nearest the earth.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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