anomalistic month
    n 1: period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546
         days

Anomalistic \A*nom`a*lis"tic\, Anomalistical
\A*nom`a*lis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. anomalistique.]
   1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules.
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   2. (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance
      of a planet from its perihelion.
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   Anomalistic month. See under Month.

   Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or
      satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes
      of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the
      same again.

   Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.
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