What would happen if earths orbit around the sun Changed by 100 miles?

Question

In other words it gets 100 miles closer and then 100 miles further away. Is this a significant distance for any major problems or changes? Let me know if this question makes sense.

Answer 1

100 miles distance is quite insignificant as compared to the millions of Kilometers of the distance between the Sun and the Earth. Nothing will happen except change in duration of day and night for a few seconds.

Answer 2

Even the slightest orbital change could either turn the Earth into one big ice cube or turn it into another Venus. Basically, 100 miles away would make another ice age because the temperature would drop considerably if away from the Sun and 100 miles closer would turn the heat up, oh, let's say boiling water. Right now the Earth is in a perfect alignment. A slight change would not be a great thing for us and anything else here

Answer 3

The approximate distance from the sun to the earth is 93,000,000 miles. Why that is approximate is not because our ability to measure, but because the distance is changing. When the earth and sun are the closest and fartherst they can be 1.5 million miles closer or further away, respectively. 100 miles isn't going to mean anything, especially when we factor in variations that we see from year to year. We move about 100 miles away from the sun every 10 million years, but climate shifts on this planet occur much more frequently than that, suggesting that this amount of distance change is nothing to worry about.

Answer 4

If we moved closer to the sun, we would experiance hotter weather, enough to significantly change our climate and even kill off many species of animals. The heat would be unbareble by most plants and animals resultuing in the wide spread death pf ecosystems and therefore the enviroment. Eventually we would die due to a lack of oxygen from plants.

If we moved further away we would experiance a huge drop is atmospheric tempreture. Plants and animals will be unable to cope with the cold and die out.
Seas will cool, resulting in the death of warm blooded creatures and the possible lowering of the sea levels.

Both possibilities are bad and could severly damage all life on earth as we know it.

EDIT: 100 miles is enough to cause mass entinctions. Even the slightest change WILL cause significant weather changes.

Answer 5

That distance would be only a 1 /930,000th difference from our present distance from the Sun. Nothing would happen.
Anybody that says a hundred miles difference is going to cause a new Ice Age is retarded.

Answer 6

I'm not sure, but seeing as the earth revolves around the sun at 67000 miles per hour, and that we are over 93 MILLION miles away from the sun, not much would happen at all. It's to insignificant to matter.

Answer 7

The climate would change drastically invoking a Another Ice Age or Melt the polar Ice Caps and Drown the World

Answer 8

It will not change the atmosphere, season, day, night because earth's radius and its radius of revolutionary orbit is also very large as comparision with 100 miles. Nothing could be happened.

Answer 9

oh yeah ur question does make a lot of sense...................if easrth gets 100 miles closer u never hav to cook ur self grilled chicken............ can just throw the chicken out in sun!!!!
if the earth gets 100 miles further u might not need a refrigerator!!

Answer 10

ther is definitely going2 occur a change.if it got closer, it may just fall into sun and if it got farther, it may lose the gravitational attraction of sun and find itself on a straight path along the tangent to its previous orbit.i think this distance of 100 mile is enough to cause this change.if it crossed the threshold.