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perigalacticon comparison table

Subject	has definition	is a kind of	is an instance of	has antonym
galaxy orbital event		orbital event
perigalacticon	The point in a star's orbit around the Galaxy when the star lies closest to the Galactic center. The Sun is near perigalacticon now.		galaxy orbital event	apogalacticon

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