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The Earth's orbital path is technically an ellipse with the Sun at one focus. The eccentricity of the ellipse is 1/60 which is quite small.

A good approximation for the orbit is to consider it as a simple circle but with the Sun at a distance of 2.5 million km away from the centre. So the Earth's distance varies from 147.1 to 152.1 millon km with a mean value of 149.6 million km. The Earth is closest in the first week in January.

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