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07-04-2017, 02:21 AM
Happy aphelion, the day when the Earth is farthest from the sun
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If you're sitting in 90-plus degree weather, it may be hard to believe that the sun is the farthest away from Earth it will be all year. But it's true.*
Today, Monday, July 3, is the aphelion. **, that's **t just some omi**usly named Greek battle arena. It is, in fact, the one day of the year when the Earth is farthest from the sun in its orbit.
According to Space.com (https://www.space.com/37371-earth-farthest-from-sun-today-aphelion.html), "The moment of greatest separation,*k**wn as aphelion, comes at 4:11 p.m. EDT (2011 GMT) today, when Earth and the sun will be 94,505,901 miles (152,092,505 kilometers) apart.."
At its closest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion), the Earth passes about 91.4 million miles (147.1 million kilometers) from the sun, which is a difference of about 3.1 million miles.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/03/aphelion-sun-earth-farthest/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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If you're sitting in 90-plus degree weather, it may be hard to believe that the sun is the farthest away from Earth it will be all year. But it's true.*
Today, Monday, July 3, is the aphelion. **, that's **t just some omi**usly named Greek battle arena. It is, in fact, the one day of the year when the Earth is farthest from the sun in its orbit.
According to Space.com (https://www.space.com/37371-earth-farthest-from-sun-today-aphelion.html), "The moment of greatest separation,*k**wn as aphelion, comes at 4:11 p.m. EDT (2011 GMT) today, when Earth and the sun will be 94,505,901 miles (152,092,505 kilometers) apart.."
At its closest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion), the Earth passes about 91.4 million miles (147.1 million kilometers) from the sun, which is a difference of about 3.1 million miles.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/03/aphelion-sun-earth-farthest/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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