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Sun orbital event
subject			fact

Sun orbital event	has participants planet, Sun
	is a kind of orbital event
orbital event	has period 1 orbital period
event	has duration
	has synonym world point
	has time of occurrence

Kinds of Sun orbital event :

• aphelion (3 facts) - The point in a planetary orbit that is at the greatest distance from the Sun.
• ascending node (1 kind, 6 facts) - In the orbit of a solar-system body, the point where the body crosses the ecliptic from south to north: for a star, out of the plane of the sky toward the observer.
• descending node (2 facts) - The point in the orbit of a solar-system body where the body crosses the ecliptic from north to south.
• perihelion (3 facts) - The point in the orbit of an object orbiting the Sun where it is closest to the Sun's center of mass. Earth's perihelion occurs early in January.