apocenter|apocenters in English

noun

furthest point in the orbit of a small heavenly body from the larger body around which it revolves

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1. The point of closest approach is called the periApsis or pericenter and the point of farthest excursion is the apoApsis (Greek ἀπο, from), apocenter or apApsis