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Report Style: Perigee

Reports the time of periapsis (i.e., perigee when the object's central body is Earth) for each pass during the requested interval. If the orbit is circular, reports the text 'Circular'. If the periapsis does not occur within a pass, reports the text 'Not in Pass'. This may occur during a partial pass when the requested interval doesn't start/end on a pass break, and the periapsis does not occur within that partial pass.

Data Provider:Passes

Type: Interval data.

Availability: Reports

Column Listing

Column	Column Name	Element	Type	Dimension	Description
1	Time of Perigee	Time of Perigee	Real Number or Text	Date	The time when the range rate is increasing through zero. The range rate is defined as the dot product of the position and velocity vectors divided by the magnitude of the position vector. If the orbit is very close to circular, the time will not be computed.