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Mean distance   /min dˈɪstəns/   Listen
Mean distance

noun
1.
The arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary.





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... undertook his calculations anew, and at last, with his completed results, he called at Greenwich Observatory on October the 21st, 1845. He there left for the Astronomer Royal a paper which contained the results at which he had arrived for the mass and the mean distance of the hypothetical planet as well as the other elements necessary for calculating ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball


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