apogee

huippukohta

apogeum puhekieltä The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.
puhekieltä The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite.
1995, John H. Rogers, The Giant Planet Jupiter, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-41008-3, http://books.google.com/books?id=SO48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA335&dq=perigee page 335:

Conjunctions of I and II Io and Europa occur when they are near perigee and apogee respectively; conjunctions of II and III Europa and Ganymede occur when II Europa is near perigee.

The resolution of the images obtained by this American probe Messenger will depend on its altitude above Mercury at any one time: about ten meters at perigee (200km altitude), but only one 1 km at apogee (15000km).

Nereid’s apogee—farthest point from Neptune—is five times the distance of its perigee—its closest point.

The cult of the chief executive reached its apogee in the nineteen-nineties, a period when C.E.O.s seemed not so much to serve their companies as to embody them.