i mean can you feel the heat
2006-09-24 16:28:55 · 12 answers · asked by master apple 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It's because those dumb scientists made Pluto into a dwarf planet. Just by doing this, the gravitational effect from the dwarf planet Pluto lessened, pulling us less, and letting us orbit closer to the sun. Those morons!
2006-09-24 16:37:30 · answer #1 · answered by JustJake 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
It isn't getting closer, it's getting farther away.
The Sun's gravity, even at our distance from it, creates ocean tides smaller than the Moon's, but definitely there. By frictional drag, these solar tidal bulges are slightly off-centre from the Earth-Sun line. Then because the Sun's gravity decreases with distance across the Earth (wow, 8,000 miles in 93,000,000, but it ISN'T ZERO), there is an asymmetric pull on the tidal bulges. The effect is that a tiny amount of angular momentum is transferred from the Earth's rotation (so we spin more slowly) to its orbit (so we move at the same speed, but in a larger orbit).
Lucky old Mars has no oceans, so no solar tides, so stable rotation, and a stable orbit.
2006-09-25 09:51:54 · answer #2 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For right now, you can blame the [slightly] elliptical orbit of the Earth. It's simply closer to the Sun in parts of the orbit than others.
Then in a while (millions and millions of years), the Sun will expand. It will engulf Mercury and Venus. Maybe us. I've been told that even if the Earth isn't engulfed by the Sun, it will be in the corona. There it will be burned, and the orbit will decay until it drops into the Sun (if it doesn't vaporize first)
2006-09-24 23:40:06 · answer #3 · answered by mahgri 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It isn't. The earth is at the same distance from the sun that it has been at for the last four billion years. However, there have been temperature changes over that entire span of time, and will be in the future (irrespective of anything that people do). Remember the ice ages?
2006-09-24 23:33:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you asked me why it's getting hot day-by-day.
it's not that the earth is getting closer to the sun, but actually it is due to a phenomenon called "Global warming".
it's the raise in temperature of the earth's atmosphere due to the pollutants released by vehicles, factories, refrigeration and cooling equipment, and also aeroplanes.
2006-09-28 08:09:42 · answer #5 · answered by raghuramkasyap c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has nothing to do with the distance the earth is from the sun. Instead, it has to do with the greenhouse effect and it's not going to go away anytime soon. The more the ozone is eaten away by pollution, the hotter things are going to get for us. We only have ourselves to blame for it.
2006-09-24 23:30:49 · answer #6 · answered by iswd1 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
first of all, we haven't contributed enough to affect the ozone ourselves. There is a spot in Antartica, where the larges ozone hole is, that is throwing out tons of chemicals into the air.
second of all, the earth is on a big temperature cycle. Remember the Ice age? what was it like before it? It was temperatures like now... then it got hot and then froze. It's not pollution... we're headding for another ice age! but don't worry, we'll be gone by then :)
2006-09-24 23:39:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yep it's the destiny of the end of the world.
2006-09-25 05:06:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Destiny of the end of the world. Read the revelation of the Holy Bible.
2006-09-25 00:22:04 · answer #9 · answered by Sam X9 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
the goverment isnt going to tell you this but the earth is being pulled into the sun,more rapidly every day,when we hit a certain distance it will burn us to a crisp,its gonna be a couple weeks yet so injoy your time
2006-09-25 00:32:13 · answer #10 · answered by john doe 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋