INGRESS


Meaning of INGRESS in English

in astronomy, the apparent entrance of a smaller body upon the disk of a larger one as the smaller passes between the larger and the observere.g., the entrance of a satellite or its shadow on the disk of a planet. The term is also applied to the Moon's entrance into the Earth's shadow at the start of a lunar eclipse and to the Sun's entrance into a zodiacal constellation.

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