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Does the sun effect earths orbit?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Well without the sun the Earth would probably move to another part of the universe and start orbiting around another large object.

But assuming that the Earth is orbiting our Sun, yes the sun does effect our orbit. When the Earth is at Perihelion (closest to the sun during the Earth's orbit) the Earth moves at its fastest. The reason being the gravitational force acting on the Earth from the Sun is stronger (due to newton's law of gravitation: gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance).

Finally, to put it simply, yes, it makes the Earth move faster or slower through its orbit.

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14y ago

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