In this scenario, as a smaller companion in the system came on its closest approach periastron the outer layers of the LBV, which are already unstable and loosely bound due to the size of the star, are pulled off due to tidal forces. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I therefore predict that a continuous 7 year long observation of pronounced lines may reveal a small doppler shift variation, close to the periastron passage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
With these simple starting parameters, Kashi showed that it was possible to produce a situation in which the onset of eruptions was similar to the periastron approach. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Importantly, any captured star would form a highly elliptical orbit, whose periastron encounters would strip the outer layers of both stars, leaving their hotter cores exposed – the blue stragglers we see. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the middle of the short but furious northern summer, which includes periastron, total insolation is more than double what Earth gets; in the depth of the long northern winter, it is barely less than Terrestrial average. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1973)
We won't be under any such extreme condition, but I don't expect they can track us around periastron. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1969)
Then summer was the six-month period during which Talwin passed from one of those points, through periastron, to the other end of the line segment. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1969)
The planet's axial inclination was 24-, and northern midsummer fell nearly at periastron. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1965)
It was midwinter, but also periastron; only long nights and frequent rains marked the season in this hemisphere. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1965)
These orbs complete a revolution in 180 years, and when in apastron are seventeen times more remote from each other than when at periastron. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)
The eccentricity of their orbit approaches in form that of Faye's comet, which travels round the Sun; consequently the stars, when at apastron, are twice their periastron distance. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)
Consequently, neither star can approach or recede from this point without the other affecting a similar motion, they must be at periastron and apastron together, and any acceleration or retardation of speed must occur simultaneously with each. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)
The pair travel in an orbit from fourteen to forty-two times the radius of the Earth's orbit; so that when at apastron they are three times as distant from each other as when at periastron. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)
Any approach to, or recession from this point, must occur simultaneously with each; they must always occupy corresponding parts of their orbits, and be in apastron and at periastron in the same period of time. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)
All went well, there were no incidents, no vessels disturbed him; though had the two components of the binary been at periastron, it would have simplified the work with the position micrometer. ❋ Robert Donald Locke (N/A)
At least, the periastron effects; there was another angle to it. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
It seems that the government here knew all about the weather conditions they could expect at periastron, and had made plans for them. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
The last periastron was ninety years ago, and we've only been here for sixty-odd; all we have is verbal accounts from memory from the natives, probably garbled and exaggerated. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
At periastron the disturbing force will, therefore, increase the apastron distance by an enormous amount, while at apastron it increases the periastron distance by a very small amount. ❋ Unknown (1876)
The accelerating force is vastly greater at periastron (when the two bodies are nearest each other) than at apastron ❋ Unknown (1876)
