geocentric

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having the Earth at the center.

   “a geocentric coordinate system”

   “a geocentric orbit”

   “To make the Catalogue of Eclipses, as also the Table of the Parallaxes of [Jupiter], it was necessary first to make a Table of [Jupiter]' Heliocentrick places, to which the Parallaxes being applied, give the Geocentrick.”

   “Near-Earth objects (NEOs) that follow horseshoe paths, and approach our planet at close range and low relative velocity, may undergo mini-moon events in which their geocentric energy becomes negative for hours, days or months, but without completing one revolution around Earth while bound.”

2. (not-comparable)Of or relating to geocentrism, an obsolete cosmology which placed the Earth at the center of the universe.