2007-02-17 07:28:51 · 10 answers · asked by steve h 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Earth's distance to the Sun varies from 91,600,000 miles in early July to 94,800,000 miles in early January - a difference of over 3 million miles! And that difference has no significant effect on our seasons (notice we are closer to the Sun during the northern hemisphere's winter). So another 100,000 miles won't change anything.
2007-02-17 09:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by kris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nate R has confused heat and energy. There would be no need for the gravitational potential energy to be related to the thermal energy of the Earth. We are talking about increasing the gravitational potential energy of the earth by increasing the radius of the Earth's orbit by 1 tenth of 1 percent. All the heat related to what ever mechanism moved the Earth could be disipated in the exhaust that was thrown away from the Earth. I guess I am assuming some mechanism that is an opposite but equal reaction type of propulsion system. Admittedly it would have to be extraordinarily large. Human kind probably does not use that much energy in a year.
The temperature differential probably would be too small to measure.
2007-02-17 07:50:53 · answer #2 · answered by anonimous 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably very little...there is nothing to impede the heating effects of the suns light in space, except that we would be ever so slightly more diluted because of distance. I would say little or no effects would be felt.
2007-02-17 07:31:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing, cause that is somewhere in the distance between earth and moon.
such a tiny change won't have much of an effect
2007-02-17 07:33:16 · answer #4 · answered by blondnirvana 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
besides causing a serious temperature drop, the earth would also be extremely vulnerable to astroids and our rotation around the sun would become eliptical causing our seasons to be screwed up.
2007-02-17 07:32:06 · answer #5 · answered by the interrogator 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Make it very hot, because moving a planet 100,000 miles would take so much energy, it would cause the planet to become very, very hot. Anyone who says otherwise is implying that magic happened.
2007-02-17 07:33:30 · answer #6 · answered by Nate R 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It would cause Al Gore to make a movie about global coldening.
2007-02-17 07:31:58 · answer #7 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
almost nothing, that is tiny compared to our actual distance
2007-02-17 07:32:08 · answer #8 · answered by k_e_p_l_e_r 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
slight or minimal change in climate
2007-02-17 07:42:11 · answer #9 · answered by blinkky winkky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make it cooler
2007-02-17 07:31:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋