Posted on 07/06/2018 5:41:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The exact moment of aphelion happens at 12:46 p.m. EDT (1646 GMT), when Earth will be 94,507,803 miles (152,095,566 kilometers) away from the sun. That's more than 1.5 million miles (2.5 million km) farther than the planet's average distance of about 93 million miles (150 million km) and twice as far away as perihelion, or the shortest distance from the sun, which happened on Jan. 3.
In the cosmic scheme of things, these annual changes in Earth's distance from the sun are tiny. Earth's distance at aphelion and perihelion differ from the average distance between Earth and the sun by less than 2 percent. Aphelion and perhelion are not related to the seasons, and people on Earth won't notice any difference in the weather or climate because the Earth is farther away from the sun, NASA officials have said.
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But this doesn't necessarily mean that Earth's longer distance from the sun has no noticeable effects, Roy Spencer, of the Global Hydrology and Climate Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in the same statement. "Averaged over the globe, sunlight falling on Earth in July (aphelion) is indeed about 7 percent less intense than it is in January (perihelion)," Spencer said.
Strangely, this doesn't mean that Earth is any cooler when it's farther from the sun. "The average temperature of Earth at aphelion is about 4 degrees Fahrenheit (2.3 degrees Celsius) higher than it is at perihelion," Spencer said.
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It does feel cooler today.
116 Here.
It does feel cooler today.
Are you underground ? LOL
I wonder.
Does that make seasons South of the equator, more extreme?
” ... and twice as far away as perihelion ... “
Um, no.
RTFA.
Common core math.
Love it. First time Ive seen it here. Can I borrow it?
Well it says that it will have no effect, then they admit that it does.
thanks for posting
Really. 112 in the oc placentia
Residential Treatment Facility for Adults? Isn't that why we're all here?
The planet with the least eccentric orbit is Venus, followed by Neptune, earth, Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and Mercury. If Pluto is counted as a planet it's in ninth place. If it's counted as a "dwarf planet," it is second among the ones discovered so far--after Eris.
“12:46 p.m. EDT (1646 GMT), when Earth will be 94,507,803 miles (152,095,566 kilometers) away from the sun.”
Would that be from the surface of the earth to the surface of the sun or is it from the center of the earth to the center of the sun?
In statistics, normally extreme highs and lows are left out for standard deviation. Texas in July was not considered as part of the data imputs.
Correct! Else we’d be crossing Venus’ orbit about twice every year (once inbound and once outbound). And we could never have done that successfully 4.5 billion times without something real baaaaad happening.
Here in Joshua Tree, CA it sure doesn’t feel like it
Center to center.
Between Woodcrest, and Elsinore in Glen Valley. It’s still hotter’n ‘H’ after the Sun went down. A/C will be on all night guaranteed.
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