Posted: Sep 13, 2019 7:17 am
by newolder
You are correct, the link they give in reference to lunar apogee shows how they are mistaken. Also the prefix peri- derives from the Greek for near and the prefix apo- derives from "away from".

From the figure captions:
Perigee
...snip...
Geocentric:
Distance: 359861 km

and

Apogee
...snip...
Geocentric:
Distance: 405948 km