Sentence examples for it is nearest from inspiring English sources
Consequently, its distances at perihelion and aphelion (i.e., when it is nearest and farthest from the Sun, respectively) vary little from the mean distance.
In one anomalistic month, the Moon describes its orbit from perigee to perigee, the point at which it is nearest to Earth.
Because Pluto's atmosphere appears only when it is nearest the sun and then recondenses on to its surface as it moves away again, it has even been mischievously labelled a giant comet.In any case, as more TNOs are discovered, Pluto's position looks increasingly anomalous.
We consider the nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem with partial eigendata, which aims to find a nonnegative matrix such that it is nearest to a pre-estimated nonnegative matrix and satisfies the prescribed eigendata.
Gogol called Dead Souls a "poem", and in some ways the English work it is nearest to is The Canterbury Tales, where rhyme and rhythm add to, even create, the satisfactory unexpectedness of the detail of people and things.
The perihelion, the point in the comet's orbit when it is nearest the Sun, is just 0.6 AU.
