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Sunday, January 4, 2009

Perihelion Today: Earth's Orbit Closest To Sun








January 4, 2009

Earth is closest to the Sun today for the entire year, a point in its orbit known as perihelion. The average distance to the Sun is about 93 million miles, but today we are about 1.5 million miles closer than that.

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