{"id":11761,"date":"2014-01-03T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11761"},"modified":"2013-12-16T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:35:53","slug":"perihelion-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11761","title":{"rendered":"Perihelion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the Earth is closest to the Sun, a point called perihelion<\/a>. We will be about 147,099,000km (91,403,000miles) from the Sun. Compare this to the 152,096,000km (94,508,000miles) we will be at aphelion on July 3rd, a difference of about 4,996,000km (3,104,000miles) occurs throughout one orbit.<\/p>\n

It may seem odd that we are actually at the closest for the middle of northern winter, you just have to remember that proximity to the Sun is not the cause of the seasons. The seasons are caused<\/a> by the axial tilt of the Earth, creating short and long days throughout the year, with a resulting change in the angle and intensity of the sunlight.<\/p>\n

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2014 Solstices and Equinoxes<\/th>\n
 <\/td>\nUT<\/td>\nHST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perihelion <\/td>\nJan 4 <\/td>\n05:59UT<\/td>\nJan 3 <\/td>\n19:59HST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vernal Equinox <\/td>\nMar 20<\/td>\n16:57UT<\/td>\nMar 20<\/td>\n06:57HST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summer Solstice <\/td>\nJun 21<\/td>\n10:52UT<\/td>\nJun 21<\/td>\n00:52HST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apehelion <\/td>\nJul 3 <\/td>\n22:59UT<\/td>\nJul 3 <\/td>\n12:59HST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Autumnal Equinox<\/td>\nSep 23<\/td>\n02:30UT<\/td>\nSep 22<\/td>\n16:30HST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Winter Solstice <\/td>\nDec 21<\/td>\n23:03UT<\/td>\nDec 21<\/td>\n13:03HST<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Source: NASA Sky Calendar<\/a><\/td>\n<\/th>\n<\/table>\n

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Today the Earth is closest to the Sun, a point called perihelion. We will be about 147,099,000km (91,403,000miles) from the Sun. Compare this to the 152,096,000km (94,508,000miles) we will be at aphelion on July 3rd, a difference of about 4,996,000km (3,104,000miles) occurs throughout one orbit. It may seem odd that we are actually at the … Continue reading “Perihelion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[102,101,75],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11764,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}