Posted on 01/04/2019 12:07:50 PM PST by LibWhacker
On January 3rd, 2019, Earth reached the point in its orbit where it's at its closest approach to the Sun: perihelion. Every object orbiting a single mass (like our Sun) makes an ellipse, containing a point of closest approach that's unique to that particular orbit, known as periapsis. For the past 4.5 billion years, Earth has orbited the Sun in an ellipse, just like all the other planets orbiting their stars in all the other mature solar systems throughout the galaxy and Universe.
But there's something you may not expect or appreciate that nevertheless occurs: Earth's orbital path doesn't remain the same over time, but spirals outward. This year, 2019, our perihelion was 1.5 centimeters farther away than it was last year, which was more distant than the year before, etc. It's not just Earth, either; every planet drifts away from its parent star. Here's the science of why.
The force responsible for the orbits of every planet around every solar system in the Universe is the same: the universal law of gravitation. Whether you look at it in terms of Newton, where every mass attracts every other mass in the Universe, or in terms of Einstein, where mass-and-energy curves the fabric of spacetime through which other masses travel, the largest mass dominates the orbit of everything it influences.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
The Earth is roughly an average 9.3 billion miles from the sun so in a billion years it will have moved out 0.0001% of the distance. In the same billion years the light and heat produced by the sun will have increased around 10%. If the sun keeps growing 10% every billion years while the Earth only moves away .0001%, the inevitably result is a scorched Earth. What is left over after that will probably not be recognizable as “Earth”.
Somehow I suspect all this Orbital Change is related to us leaving the Paris Climate Accord
Also because we haven’t passed gun control.
I just topped my tank off, what a waste.
The dark side? I'm in!
But not to Guam - it might tip over!
Might be in cahoots.”
I think the word of the day is “collusion” not cahoots....
“All planets? Even Uranus?”
Yes, when the sun turns into a red giant Uranus will be red hot and inflamed.
Gotta buy more tinfoil.
Nope, because Sun is growing in size, and in 5 Billion years is expected to morph into a “red giant” many times bigger than current size. That is how all stars end their life. It will still remain hot enough to fry planet earth.
You mean similar to when one suffers from Montezuma’s revenge?
IMHO the Sun’s variability of output and the Milankovitch Cycles explains our climate changing over time...The rest is insignificant by comparison...
I am a member of REASONS TO BELIEVE. We use these verses...
www.reasons.org
Isaiah 42:5: “Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out…”
Isaiah 44:24: “… I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens…”
Isaiah 45:12: “I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.”
Jeremiah 10:12: “It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.”
Jeremiah 51:15: “It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.”
We won’t move away far enough, fast enough, to avoid being engulfed when the Sun goes Red Giant on us.
It will put a stop to Glo-Bull Warming...I guess the Climate Change morons will say it is because of Trump not cooperating with the Paris Accord..
I hope Uranus is moving away faster than the other planets!
All we have to do is to perform a short retro-burn.
The Earth is 92.some million miles from the sun. One mile is equal to 160934.4 centimeters.
OMG! WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Your decimal point is drifting dangerously in the wrong direction!
This is not a problem. What's needed is a new government
agency which will be named the Department to Stop the Drift
(the DTSTD.) The Pelosi Democrats will be happy to draw up
legislation for a massive 70% tax increase on all income
levels and businesses to fund this department.
In addition, the UN will help out but will need every nation
to contribute 50% of it's GDP to help fund it's activities.
Only the USA will be expected to actually contribute though.
That explains why it’s been getting colder for the past few months.
Thanks for the info!
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