APHELION: Earth circles the sun, right? Wrong.

[FLO]

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a circle, which means the Earth-sun distance varies throughout the year. On July 3rd and 4th, Earth will be at "aphelion," the most distant point in its orbit. Around this time, the sun actually looks a little smaller, and sunlight is less intense. But don't expect any relief from the heat...

Source: Spaceweather.com

Full article: http://tinyurl.com/plmkh

[The Warthog]

Interesting. Now I'm thinking that Antarctic winters are so cold because there is a great big land mass there, rather than because the earth is actually farther from the sun. Learn something new every day...

[GordonCopestake]

The earth is about as far from the sun as it gets at the moment and we're having a heat wave in the UK, it's 35*C here.... im melting im melting!

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Gordon, you're only going to get Astroman wound up again. He'd need his vest on in this weather.

Captain Chaos

[Astroman]

Gordon, you're only going to get Astroman wound up again. He'd need his vest on in this weather.

Captain Chaos

Not true! I went to school in Wisconsin, 160 km east of Minneapolis, so I know what cold is. Toronto's balmy by comparison.

[The Warthog]

Gordon, you're only going to get Astroman wound up again. He'd need his vest on in this weather.

Captain Chaos

Not true! I went to school in Wisconsin, 160 km east of Minneapolis, so I know what cold is. Toronto's balmy by comparison.

Yeah, but Winnipeg ain't.