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Has Earth's average distance from the sun increased?

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It is not presently known whether the Earth's orbit around the sun is or has been increasing or decreasing. It is generally believed to be stable, but in 1989 a scientist showed that the Earth's orbit around the sun is chaotic, and a tiny error determining the position of Earth makes it impossible to predict Earth's orbit around the sun (or determine what it was in the distance past).

It is believed that the Earth's orbit will become wider in about 500 million years, when the sun reaches its next phase and loses a lot of its mass. However, the Sun will swell and, it is believed, envelop Earth.

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