Apocheir

What is Apocheir?


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If you look from the side of at a planet swinging around in its orbit, split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string, it all looks like a yo-yo. The point furthest from the sun is called aphelion. The point furthest away from the yo-yo hand is called, by analogy, apocheir.

Benny Profane, a schlemihl and human yo-yo, gets to an apocheir.

See radius, yo-yo, geometry


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