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ZME Science on MSNEarth Is Spinning Faster Than Usual. Scientists Aren’t Sure WhyAtomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...
Because Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun, being further away means it travels slower along its orbit. This ...
“Earth’s orbit is fairly circular,” said Larry Wasserman, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, ... At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles.
We see some of our hottest temps when Earth is furthest from the Sun (aphelion) and coolest at the closest to the Sun ...
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