Aphelion is a point in the Earth’s elliptical orbit, which is farthest from the Sun, occurring exactly two weeks after the June solstice during the summer months in the Northern hemisphere. The Earth’s perihelion and aphelion move slowly through the zodiac each year, making it difficult to watch their progress through the seasons. Earth revolves around the Sun in an elliptical orbit with a mean eccentricity of 0.0167, resulting in varying distances from the Sun (center-to-center).
Earth signs are Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. Astrologers explain what Earth’s perihelion means for your life according to your zodiac sign and how to balance out your earth, wind, fire, and air. Earth’s importance in astrology varies depending on your beliefs about the creation of our universe. According to Ancient Greek, the meaning of the elements within a birth chart is “the air”.
Aphelion and perihelion describe the furthest and closest distance the Earth is to the Sun, respectively. The Earth is farthest from the Sun (aphelion) roughly two weeks after the summer solstice, and closest to the Sun (perihelion) roughly two weeks after the winter solstice. The exact distances of Earth’s perihelion and aphelion change slightly.
The term “aphelion” comes from the Greek word “apo”, meaning “away from”. The exact distances of Earth’s perihelion and aphelion vary slightly. The aphelion occurs on the 4th of July, about two weeks after the June solstice.
In summary, aphelion is the point in the Earth’s elliptical orbit, occurring two weeks after the June solstice during the summer months in the Northern hemisphere. Astrologers can help individuals balance their earth, wind, fire, and air in their astrology charts.
📹 Module 2.3 (Perihelion & aphelion, Perigee & apogee)
Which dates is Earth at aphelion?
On July 5, 2024, the Earth will reach its farthest distance from the sun in its year-long journey around our nearest star, aphelion. This event, known as aphelion, occurs early in the morning at exactly 1:06 a. m. EDT on Friday, July 5. It marks the beginning of our year-long journey around the sun and marks the beginning of our journey around our nearest star. This special point in our year-long journey around the sun is a significant event in our solar system.
What occurs at aphelion?
Aphelion is the point in a planet’s orbit most distant from the Sun, with Earth being about 4, 800, 000 km farther from the Sun than at its perihelion in early July. Other terms for distant orbital points include apogee and aposaturnium. The apogee of Earth’s Moon is about 50, 000 km more distant from Earth than its closest orbital point (perigee). The term apocentre refers to the farthest point in a body’s orbit from the body it circles. This information was last revised and updated by Erik Gregersen.
What is meant by aphelion position of the Earth?
Aphelion is the point of Earth’s orbit farthest from the Sun, occurring in early July, two weeks after the June solstice. Perihelion is the point nearest to the Sun, occurring in early January, two weeks after the December solstice. The words “helios” means “Sun”, “apo” means “far”, and “peri” means “close”. The point closest to Earth is called the “perigee”, while the farthest is known as the “apogee”.
What is the aphelion in astrology?
Aphelion, derived from the Greek words ‘Apo’ meaning far and ‘Helion’ meaning the sun, is an astrological term referring to the furthest point in the orbit of celestial bodies like planets and comets from the Sun. According to Kepler’s first law of motion, all astronomical bodies have nearly elliptical orbits around the Sun, with the Sun being one of the focus points for their satellites’ elliptical orbits. Thus, the orbiting astronomical body has the nearest and furthest points from the Sun.
Aphelion occurs approximately two weeks after the June Solstice, as celestial bodies’ orbits are not perfectly circular but elliptical, necessitating a point where they are farthest and nearest to the Sun.
What is the significance of the aphelion?
Aphelion, the farthest point in Earth’s elliptical orbit around the sun, slightly reduces sunlight reaching India during early July. However, this has a minor impact on temperatures. Seasonal changes due to Earth’s tilt are more significant. At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun fluctuates slightly throughout the year, with a distance of approximately 152. 5 million kilometers. At perihelion, Earth is closest to the Sun, occurring around January 3 annually, with a distance of 147. 5 million kilometers. Seasonal factors, such as Earth’s tilt, are the main influence on India’s temperatures, with a difference in solar radiation of only about 3.
Does aphelion 2024 affect health?
Facebook posts in Africa and Europe claim that the “aphelion phenomenon” has caused extremely cold weather on Earth since July 4, 2022, and will continue until August 22, 2022, due to increased distance to the sun. The posts also claim the event will cause people to fall ill. However, two astronomers told AFP Fact Check that the aphelion is an annual occurrence with no impact on Earth’s temperature or human health. The cold weather started last month and will last until August 22nd.
Why is it hot during aphelion?
Aphelion Day is a time when the Northern Hemisphere tilts towards the Sun, resulting in summer. This tilt allows sunlight to strike the surface more directly, leading to increased solar radiation and higher temperatures. Despite Earth being farthest from the Sun, the tilt compensates for reduced solar energy, resulting in warm weather. The impact of Earth’s elliptical orbit and aphelion on temperature is less significant than axial tilt, which is the primary driver of seasons. Other factors like local geography, ocean currents, and atmospheric conditions also play a significant role in determining weather on Aphelion Day.
What happens when the Earth is at aphelion?
Aphelion, occurring one week after a solstice, is the point in Earth’s orbit around the Sun at which the northern half of the planet is closest to the Sun. This results in longer, hotter summer days despite the planet’s distance from the Sun.
Why is it so hot today in 2024?
NASA has reported record-breaking temperatures this summer, which are primarily attributable to human activities and greenhouse gas emissions. These observations are part of a long-term warming trend.
Is the Earth moving away from the Sun in 2024?
On July 5, Earth reaches its farthest point from the sun for the year, a moment called aphelion. This is the smallest point in the sky, and Earth receives less radiation from the sun as heat. At aphelion, Earth is 94. 5 million miles away from the sun, while in six months, it will be 91. 4 million miles away. This difference is only about a three percent difference. The full strawberry moon marks an once-in-18-years event, and it is a significant event in our solar system.
📹 Earth’s motion around the Sun, not as simple as I thought
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Nilesh ji, earlier I’ve mentioned about the Great War in Bhavishya Puranas. It mentioned some astronomical signs. It states that : When King Krishnansh was born, it was Bhadrapada Krishna Aashtami in Brahma Nakshtra. I think that the Brahma Nakshtra is telling about the Brahmarashi/Pole star. Sorry, for raising another topic. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Great explanation. But those ellipses gives a wrong impression: the Earth’s orbit is so little elliptical that we can’t even distinguish its shape from a circle (its semimajor axis is 0.01% longer than its semiminor axis). The Sun is also much closer to the center of the Earth’s orbit, being only 2% off.
Well done, thank you. Celestial dynamics are mind-bendingly complicated. I can’t imagine the math involved. I found your article searching for a similar article explaining the moon’s orbital variations. Yours is excellent. Now I just need to watch it about five more times and think about each thing you say.
After 11 years, I finally discovered this amazing article. The way to explain the science behind the universe reminded my primary school days. Informative Science books and articles like this makes me interested in science and the universe. I always appreciate the beauty of the nature and the universe. Thank you
Scary! I feel like an ant sitting on a rock that suddenly began rolling downhill. I didn’t realize how erratic our (the earth’s) motion is. This article makes me appreciate the enormity of our solar system, the Milky Way galaxy and eventually our universe. I love the way you have explained everything. Even then I have pause and think and visualize things in my head. Thank you.
I cannot help but be struck by the enormous contrast between the lucid, logical beauty of this extremely-well produced and informative article, and the predictably dull, simian contributions of the flat-earth brigade. What a diverse species we are – some aspire relentlessly to new heights and undiscovered horizons, while others choose to regress inexorably.
I suspected the Earth’s motion relative to the Sun was more complex than it is generally alleged to be, but there is even more that is not covered in this article. The Moon exerts a pull on the Earth as it circles the Earth that makes the smooth ellipses shown in this article a lot “lumpier” than they shown to be even though the variations are relatively much smaller. If you add all of the perturbations together, the Earth is wobbling along an approximate path around the Sun as it wanders through the galaxy. It is all so amazing. Gravity rocks! I’m just amazed that we can calculate all of this information.
Pretty good, but it contains one real blooper. The crossover point on the annalema (“Figure 8”) is not the time of the equinox, currently. Currently the crossover will be on about 12th of April and 30th of August in 2014, not particularly close to the equinoxes. At equinox, the sun is just about midway between the solstices (not surprisingly), the top and bottom of the annalema. I still gave it a thumbs up.
Imagine a geometric plane which passes through the center of the Sun and upon which the orbital path of the Earth lies (ignoring the galactic path). Call it plane EO. (Plane EO would, coincidently, pass through the center of the Earth.) Now imagine a plane perpendicular to EO which passes through the center of the Sun and the center of the Earth. Call this plane NS. Now imagine a line which is the rotational axis of the Earth. Call it line RA. And finally, imagine a line segment passing from the center of the Sun to the center of the Earth. Call this line ES. Lines RA and ES always intersect, but at a constantly changing angle. Each time this intersect is perpendicular is an equinox. Each time the intersection is maximally (or minimally) non-perpendicular is a solstice. The beginning and end of years can be arbitrarily defined by an angle of the intersection, RA ʌ ES. Any time the intersection, RA ʌ ES, forms the defined angle is said to be the beginning of the year. This definition of a year will always agree with the seasons.
Great article. I need to save the link to share with people this summer who didn’t understand when I told them that the Big Dipper is only horizontal in summer and in winter, it’s vertical, and if you look up at it and then orient yourself in a circle, you’ll find a point when it looks like a giant question mark. *(Because its position in the sky is different, as the earth tilts, you can make it look horizontal in winter too, I just mean where it is in the sky is overhead, you can’t make it look vertical in summer without tilting your head from our perspective, see this is why I couldn’t explain this to them lol) They didn’t understand the concept of the tilted axis the earth wobbles on, while it spins and rotates around the sun, and I couldn’t explain it well enough on my own. This illustrates it perfectly. I wish I knew more about the night sky, I try to understand which planets are which, but I’m rarely places where it’s dark enough to see every star. I think that tied our daily lives into the cosmos more. It’s funny we’re more “space age” now but 98% of us can’t tell Venus from Sirius, or even name a star, or name Polaris as the North Star. 400 years ago everyone knew every planet and star in their chunk of the sky.
That reminds me of the time I was in Malin head in Donegal, Ireland in 1972, we saw a huge ball of light going from left to right (like the sun) moving across the sea on a beautiful clear sunny day, we were amazed as we never seen anything like that before or since, we were staying in moville on a fishing trawler training course. I am from Dundalk, Ireland.
I’ve noticed that Orion is out during the winter mostly. It was coming up around 3 – 4 am, now it’s coming up about an hour earlier. Before you know it, it’ll be coming up at 9 pm in a few months. I also just learned about the whole process of leap year, it’s pretty wild. To have a leap year on the turn of a century only happens alevery 400 years, and the year 2000 had one, the last time before that was the year 1600 and the next will be 2400. Very interesting.
Astronomy has a deep fascination – on its surface it’s easy to know the constellations, then with the planets interjected and the moon being fairly predictable – but the more we discover the more intricate it all becomes. Living by the ocean it seemed the tides were ostensibly easy to understand too, but they’re more intricate than I initially understood – they’re infinitely intricate affected by moon/sun and ocean floor topography, then add in large storm affects and there is constant shift. It’s terrific that A. Navabi and the CassioPeia Project have illuminated some of these wild and lengthy cycles I knew nothing about. These graphics and the ambient music backdrop are so helpful to deeper understanding – THANK YOU !
I will just ask the flat earth people one question. Why is the flight time between Perth Australia and Johannesburg South Africa 11 hours 10 minutes. The flight time between Sydney Australia and Frankfurt, Germany 22 hours 30 minutes. The flight time between Sydney Australia and Santiago, Chile 12 hours 40 minutes. When on a flat earth map the distance between Sydney Australia and Frankfurt, Germany is the shortest. while the other two are much, much longer? All aircraft are similar and travel at similar speeds, you can check these flights if you like. It’s a nice simple question with no math, science or trickery, so can you explain this?
This just demonstrates that the earth is in a rut. Sure, there are slight variations in its routine, but it’s basically the same old thing, eon after eon. The earth is so bored now, it’s just going through the motions. If I were the earth, once in a while I would do an orbit perpendicular to the normal plane just to shake things up. Then I would laugh at the confusion and chaos it caused. For millennia ever after, I would randomly think about that contrary year and laugh to myself. Oh, sure, Pluto and Uranus have been kinda oddballs for some time, but their schtick is getting’ kinda old. You can only tell the same joke so many times before it ceases to be funny. Of course, that last point is lost on many YouTubers.
The initial diagram as the article opens is very misleading. To a fairly good approximation, the Earth does follow a closed repeating elliptical path around the sun which is only slightly more elliptical than a circle. The only time differences would appear is over huge amounts of time when perturbations of the planets on the Earth and the very very slight effects of relativistic precession would start to have an effect to change the precise shape and mathematical characteristics of the orbit.
Although it is true that we have a lot to learn, so far in science some basics seem to be established quite firmly. Since the Sun is in motion too, any orbiting planet would have to speed up at one point, (relative to the Sun) catch it and pass in front of it in order to complete it’s own orbit, right? I mean if my dog is circling around me while I’m walking, she has to increase her speed while running in the same direction with me, go round in front of me and slow down while going the opposite direction to wait for me to pass and circle behing me and so on. I am wondering if this king of an orbit has same amount of stability compared to an orbit going full circles around a stationery object? Climatology is finding out that the topic of this discussion has a lot to do with the weather patterns on Earth. I am telling you this will end up in creating a new branch of science called the “joined branches”. Meteorologist need Astrophysicist to figure these out and there’s nobody mastered in both, yet. “Joint Branches os Science” Just wait, it will pop up sometime soon. It has to.
Fantastic article. I would add that on a more cosmic scale, most of this tiny relative motion becomes trivial as we are dragged by our sun around the Milkyway at half a million miles per hour. We are basically following an out-of-control fusion reactor to our eventual death as it expands, consumes us, and burns us alive.
Sorry guys, but no civilizations knew about either elliptical orbits or precession prior to the post-Renaissance scientists – Brahe because he made the precise observations; Kepler because he did the math and showed elliptical orbits. Newton and his contemporaries were the first to show that this was due to an inverse-square force law. It would be impossible to demonstrate precession or nutation without more accurate and precise observations, which we didn’t have as a human race until a couple hundred years ago. Sure, the heliocentric model was around 2000 years before Copernicus, but it’s a big leap from heliocenric to ellipses and precession.
“It’s not so simple…” Great little jaunt through the complications of Earth’s orbit! Yet all this is the result of applying a few simple rules – Newton’s Laws of Motion and Gravitation (with slight tweaks from Einstein). The rules are simple; their application, not so much! Sidereal, tropical, anomalistic, … – which type of year is your age measured in? Calendar years. Which in turn, are keyed to the tropical year. Fred
I don’t know if you ever considered that Earth is basically a space ship. We travel around the cosmo following the Sun, we are never in the same place in the deep space twice. In fact we move, meaning this year we are not in the same place where we were last year and so on. Mind blowing if you ask me.
That animation is not an accurate representation of our planet’s orbit. It has been highly accentuated. We don’t come anywhere near that close to the Sun nor is our orbit that elongated. If we came that close and then swung that far out there would be huge shifts in global temps 2x a year where we’d enjoy +200 degree summers and -200 winters.
I have been perusal the movement of the moon every night for about 3 days. I was surprised by how fast it moves around us, but it was following a clear path. tonight I went and it was in a totally different place. it is hard to explain but it’s like it went back in a matter of 24 hours. it was going from south-east to north-west to my eyes and that was pretty clear. tonight I expected it to be even more towards the north-west, obviously, yet it went the opposite direction. look I don’t understand anything about this stuff and I’m definitely not a flat earther or something. i just can’t figure out how it is now in a totally different place. if anyone understood this please explain me how this is possible hahaha
Every time I learn about astronomical facts I can’t help being amazed at the enormous amount of hours our ancestors spent looking at the stars in order to start making sense of it all. Just the fact that centuries ago, with none of the technology we take for granted, people could calculate the days of eclipses and where on earth they could be watched from is a testament to human resourcefulness and thirst for knowledge.
how does a flat earther explain a hurricane and why they exist. why is there wind? If there’s a dome, what makes the wind blow? What creates earth quakes, what makes lava? Why is lava under pressure. why does yellow stone exist. why does the sun appear to be round? Why does the moon appear to be round?
👉Allah almighty our creator says, “It is He(Allah) who created night and day, the sun☀️ and the moon🌙, each floating in its orbit.” (Quran, 21:33) Sun’s orbit The belief that the Sun is stationary was widespread amongst astronomers until the 20th century. It is now a well-established scientific fact that the Sun is not stationary, but is moving in an orbit around the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. The Sun rotates on its axis as it revolves around the galaxy. Its spin has a tilt of 7.25 degrees with respect to the plane of the planets’ orbits. Since the Sun is not solid, different parts rotate at different rates. At the equator, the Sun spins around once about every 25 Earth days, but at its poles, the Sun rotates once on its axis every 36 Earth days. The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way, bringing with it the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects in our solar system. Our solar system is moving with an average velocity of 450,000 miles per hour (720,000 kilometers per hour). But even at this speed, it takes about 230 million years for the Sun to make one complete trip around the Milky Way. References: google.com/amp/s/solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/in-depth.amp Who could have mention this fact 1400 years ago? Only the creator of everything can tell this fact. This is big sign that Qur’an is God’s word. “In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful.” This Message is from the slave and Messanger of Allah Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) to the Mankind.
Looking at this model of the Earth’s rotation and how seasons change in length and intensity after adding all the variables, it is easy to see how bad human-induced alterations in climate can escalate the way they do. The Sun is always radiating light and heat. And depending on where the Earth is located at any given moment during its translation around the Sun, that determines how much heat it gets. Add the tilt and the overall inclination of the orbital plane, and that should indicate how much sunlight a certain hemisphere will get each year. Plus, let’s not forget our dear primary star has its own cycles of more intensive discharges (coronal, magnetic, etc.). So, adding intensity of the Sun’s activity to the Earth’s movement variables over a period should give us a relatively accurate read on how hot it will get. And the projected period it would take for the Sun to “calm the F down” will tell you how many (tens/hundreds/thousands of) years we can expect of warm and cozy seasons. But wait! Here’s the best part: Add onto the total heat you get from all that the CO2 density of the atmosphere (courtesy of Human Civilization), then subtract the water retention variables from the ground that provide a cooldown effect (again, courtesy of Human Civ.), and voila! You get the totals to determine just how bad we’re F-ing ourselves in terms of how scorching it will get by the year. Yes, this is a rough estimate, and likely our dear, terrified meteorologists use more a complex group of equations/methods.
I can’t wait for a computer program or an app that incorporates the calendar and the time with the procession of the Earth orbiting the Sun along with the equinox and everything he so pleasantly described in all that detail in calendar format that you can play with…maybe slide it forward or backward to specific dates to see the tilt, etc
Great vid. However, on the equinoxes, the sun is not at the crossover point on the analemma. It is equal in disrance between the top and bottom of the analemma. This is because the earths orbit is slightly eccentric. It also wouldn’t make sense for the sun to be at the crossover point on the equinoxes because the tilt of the planet is 0 degrees relative to the sun. So it would not be closer to one pole or the other.
I never understood why the tilt creates seasons. The earth would stil go around the sun. Some parts would still be further and closer during that time. The place that happens on would just change. If not, why? Can someone please explain this figurative? I mean, it’s only tilted because we define where the magnetic field comes out as up and down, or the polar caps. I’m not sure. By up and down I mean the place that the degree it’s tilted is measured from.
So basically the earth’s orbital eccentricity is changing every 100k years, earth axial tilt is changing from 21to 24 degrees every 42k years, earth is having axial preecision every 26k years, earth’s orbit is moving around the sun and making one complete circle in 112k years, aphelion and perihelion making a complete circle by 21k years, also earth’s orbit is changing its inclination every 100k years relative to sun’s ecliptic….also the entire solar system is revolving around the galactic centre in 225-250 million years….is there anything else??
That’s a lot to consider. Such a delicate balance. Each planets gravity works like magnets to pull and keep spinning without ever touching or losing contact completely. Yet. That tilt thing is serious. We know earths axis changes back and forth between two angles. Ever 40k years it draws a circle back to where it was. About 20k years since the ice age means now is the time of everything catching on fire. We’re going uphill and it’ll be a while before we come back down to see snow again.
How can you say currently southern hemisphere gets extreme weathers, and northern hemisphere less extreme. Where in Northern hemishphere in country like India temperature geos to 50 degree celsius in Summers, but in southern hemishphere country like Brazil, the temperature goes to around 40. From evidence it seems the other way around, the currently northern hemisphere gets extereme weathers.
Anyone else here ever think about the fact that we are trillions or more miles away from the point in the universe we were at the day we were born? And we will never be there again as we continue to travel through space. Earth travels 584 million miles each year orbiting the sun. So multiply that mileage by your age and that’s how far you have traveled just in this solar system. Then you would have to figure in the mileage this system has travelled through this galaxy and then the galaxies distance through intergalactic space and so on. It baffles the mind.
If the tilt changes like it says every 41k years, does that mean in 41k years from now. December/January in the northern hemisphere will be the warmest months with the longest days of the year instead of June/July? Summer and winter will trade places? Or is the tilt change not as significant as depicted in this article? (I might have to watch this again when im not as tired lol)
I just learnt earth precission and earths obliquity are two different things as well as they have different length of cycle. Considering earth precission has a cycle of 27000 years meanwhile earths obliquity is 14000 years cycle, given that factor earth should have unique north celestial star, does not have repeated nort star within the next cycles
When you talked about the plane of the Earth’s orbit moving with respect to its current plane of orbit (which is, by definition, a fixed plane because it’s the plane of the orbit at the current epoch), you said it has a period of about 70,000 years. Then you defined the invariable plane as the plane of the total angular momentum of the solar system, which is again a fixed plane since the total angular momentum is a conserved quantity. But then you said that the inclination of the Earth orbit changes relative to the invariable plane with a cycle of 100,000 years. How is this possible? There are two fixed plane in context, and you are talking about the variation of the Earth’s orbital plane relative to these two different fixed planes, and so, the periods relative to the two fixed planes must be equal, i.e., a full cycle relative to one reference plane will correspond exactly to a full cycle relative to the other reference plane! Kindly help me understand it correctly.
Mercury and Venus may not have a lot of mass to affect Earth’s orbit however Jupiter and Saturn being as big as they are… might pull the Earth away from the Sun without Mercury and Venus. This is why the Earth is so special because truly everything as it exists now serves to keep us locked into our special Goldilocks zone orbit around the sun.
3:19 How can this part of the article actually seriously be included let alone elaborated on? If the earth does actually revolve around the sun and do that weird tilt wobble, how could Polaris and the South Star (Sigma Octanis) ever stay at the poles (which Polaris does, all year round, mind you: same spot in the sky with all other constellations rotating around it)? Are the pole stars magnetised to the earth’s poles, following them for the full revolution of the sun? If so, how can we explain the other stars which have geographical relation to Polaris? Are we seriously going to say all stars are suspended around the globular earth following it for its heliocentric revolution and spin in order to maintain their point in the sky? Or are we going to concede that to see a pole star (and others) all year round you have to be on an unmoving disc not a globe flying and spinning and tilt wobbling through space. Another point is, when these models are shown they work well enough to explain most constellations (the sun is still blocking all constellations on the equator). IF we imagine there are no other planets in our solar system, but we know there are plenty more and most are allegedly several times bigger than earth. So, how can stars be painted on the walls of the universe box and still be visible during our perpetual solar system motions without Jupiter & Saturn rolling their fat bodies over the constellations? Completely covering them in the night sky? Has anyone on earth ever observed this?
Yet again orbital motions of the planets totally ignore the fact the sun is moving at 250 km/s or 150 miles/s in its orbit. The actual paths of the planets and moons are long slightly wavy lines that appear to us as orbits. There are so many forces and effects that perfect circles or perfect eclipses would be considered as freak occurrences. And no, the moon does not orbit the earth, it orbits the sun and travels a slightly more wavy path than does earth, so it appears to us to orbit the earth.
Shows the Sun of center of solar system is also rotating thru the arms of milky way. Sun is not stationary, just the center point of solar system which is moving as a whole as we on Earth can not see these physics of the Sun s orbit. Seems our Orbit is changing always but its just following the path of the Sun s orbital direction.
I get that the orbit is exaggerated so people can understand earth doesn’t orbit in a perfect circle, but they needed to say that it was exaggerated and that the perihelion is only slightly closer to the sun that the aphelion. I spent a long time confused about how far the aphelion and perihelion were from the sun and why it didn’t have an enormous affect on the seasons.
How did you become so geometrically and number smart ? I was trying to ponder the sun’s travel and never understood it by other explains but you made it clearer . I had this questions – how many more wheels determined a day in christ or this secular now-As it seems time takes us to these eternal loopy loops -how many other wheels are giving us this free gift of the waters of consciousness As i tell myself, i am only 72 plus – ONE DAY OLD IN TH PLATONIC GREAT YEAR! Or On those other elongated ovals or gigantic wheels – not born yet .wow ….is that the ultimate loop or is there no such wheel? We become pure void -no observes to document the wheels of time. ❤😊
There is no orbiting/revolving type motion of earth around the sun. A simplified extract of statement of facts/points is enlisted:- 1. If earth is revolving around the Sun, the dynamic momentum and laws of equilibrium of forces is loosing its validity. 2. The circumferential distance around sun and distance between sun and surface of earth is very large, may be called for intercepting eventuality with other orbiting planets, in space. 3. Forces in space, articulating dynamic stability and positional location of planets, for eventualities and happenings realisation, may have some fundamental origin & real data visualization, beyond barely assumptions. 4. The track ways path, orientation of orbital movement of Moon in the space, can be visualised every day ~ 12 h. The orientation of orbiting movement of sun is also being visualised in the space, for 12 h, in the same pattern as moon is performing its orbital cycle. 5. The orbital plane orientations of Sun and moon happens to be parallel/intersecting each other during formation of Sun /moon eclipses (~ 2/2 Times/year). 6. A justified declaration is a must and logical truth of natural science happening may be sustained
Question?? Since in the winter time the earth is closer to the sun, in the northern Hem, then the observers in the southern Hemisphere should see the sun to be closer even though they are in the summertime. in other words, the sun is farther in the summer for the observer in the northern Hemisphere. Since it will be winter for the observers in the southern Hem. then the sun should appear farther away for the observers in the southern Hem that is winter, when it is summer in the northern Hem. The sun is further away from earth in the summer for Northern Hem. since sun is closer to the earth in the winter (Northern Hem) and the winter of Northern Hem is summer for the southern Hem, therefore the sun should be closer to earth during the summer time for the southern Hem.Am I correct? What am I missing?
Amazing!.. I feel I understood it intuitively, and further opening my own human mind to other possibilities…afterall it’s all axioms in maths, using small relatable happenings and all sorts of thought experiments to explain or extrapolate likely occurrence of an observed situation “as below, so it’s above”..innit?.. I want a scholarship..
We learn more and more, the sun travels around our galaxy once every 230 mil. years, our earth’s orbit has the smallest eccentricity, our closest galaxy Andromeda with similar diameter (over 100,000 L.Y.) is only 2.57 mil. L.Y. away, though the expansion is accelerating our galaxy can still collide with Andromeda due to cluster effect and gravitation force, cycles of death and birth of stars, the universe is truly dynamic.
Vedic ( East Indian ) astrology which is at least thousands of years old uses the sidereal year, they knew it then. Take somebody who is born July 29, Sun would be in Leo per Tropical but in Cancer in sidereal/vedic. They knew about the precession of the equinoxes very very long before. They will also accurately tell you the degree of the zodiac ( each is 30 degrees for a total of 12 zodiacs of 360 ) the Moon and the Sun are at.
I appreciate the good work of the author of this article however I’m not convinced the earth is going around the sun or spinning or tilted. There needs to be an alternative view such that the sun goes around the earth because this is possible too if you don’t simply take what NASA says. If the earth is going around and stars are always in the same position (given a little change over eons) then what do the stars do? Just sit there?