English

Noun

apokrone ‎(plural apokrones)

1. Apoapsis around the planet Saturn.
   • 2009, Robert Brown, ‎Jean Pierre Lebreton, & ‎Jack Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens, ISBN 1402092156, 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 0444535748, 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).