Further Away From the Sun Today...

[Greg]

STRANGE BUT TRUE: Sweltering populations in the American west might find this hard to believe: Earth is extra-far from the sun today. On July 7th, Earth passes through a point in its orbit called aphelion, which is 5 million km farther from the sun than the opposite point in January (perihelion). This has many consequences. For one thing, the sun looks a few percent smaller than usual:

http://spaceweather.com/

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[Kai]

I was only saying to Virg that the sun looked further away today and there you go and post this

[CH]

That's why it was a tad cooler today then?

[Ant]

Read the whole article - very interesting indeed.

It does make sense.

Ant

[Vega]

That's why the Southern Hemisphere on average gets warmer temperiture's in the summer than the Northern hemisphere summer.

[lunator]

Also we are going more slowly at the mo.

The orbital speed gets faster now