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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2021🎓 HS🔄 Round 8#️⃣ Question 23🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

A spacecraft in a circular orbit about the Earth then undergoes a short burn to quickly increase its velocity tangentially to its orbit. Which of the following terms best describes the point in its new orbit that the burn was performed, assuming the orbit is still bound?

W) Periapsis
X) Apoapsis (read: a-po-AP-sis)
Y) Co-vertex
Z) The spacecraft does not return to this point
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