geocentric

alternative obsolete geocentrick

1. not comparableHaving the Earth at the center.

   a geocentric orbit

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   a geocentric coordinate system

   To make the Catalogue of Eclipses, as also the Table of the Parallaxes of [Jupiter], it was necessary first to make a Table of [Jupiter]' Heliocentrick places, to which the Parallaxes being applied, give the Geocentrick.

   1685, J. Flamsteed, Philosophical Transactions, volume XV, page 1217

   Near-Earth objects (NEOs) that follow horseshoe paths, and approach our planet at close range and low relative velocity, may undergo mini-moon events in which their geocentric energy becomes negative for hours, days or months, but without completing one revolution around Earth while bound.

   2024 September, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “A Two-month Mini-moon: 2024 PT₅ Captured by Earth from September to November”, in Research Notes of the AAS, American Astronomical Society, →DOI

2. not comparableastronomyOf or relating to geocentrism, an obsolete cosmology which placed the Earth at the center of the universe.