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Aphelion, 2009
Published on 4 Jul 2009 at 1:17 pm.
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Filed under astronomy, physics.
Last night, Earth reached the farthest point in its orbit from the Sun. This distance is called the aphelion of Earth’s orbit. The exact distance varies a bit from year to year due to perturbations in Earth’s orbit from the other planets, but it doesn’t vary by very much. We were just under 152,100,000 kilometers […]
