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The orbit of a planet is not a circle with the sun at the center. It's an ellipse with
the sun at one focus.
An ellipse is an 'egg shape', or 'oval', or 'squashed circle'. It has two foci (focuses)
and neither one is in the center.
So you can easily see that as the planet moves along the ellipse, its distance from the sun
changes, and there is a minimum distance (perihelion) and a maximum distance (aphelion).
Those don't change unless the shape of the ellipse changes, and the only way
that happens is through the gravitational influence of the other planets, which
is relatively tiny over the course of many millennia.
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