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Despite Heat, Earth Is Farthest From Sun on Friday

2013-07-05 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: With the United States in the clutches of a heat wave that is spurring deadly wildfires across the Southwest, it might feel like the sun is punishingly close right now. Actually the exact opposite is true: Earth will be farther from the sun on Friday, July 5, than on any other day this year. That's because the orbits of all the planets in our solar system-including Earth's-are elliptical, as opposed to circular. The phenomenon was first explained in mathematical detail by the 17th-century German...

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