Is it true that if Earth was 1 inch closer to the Sun it would burn, and 1 inch farther, it would freeze?

Answer 1

Not true.

The earth is actually different distances from the sun at different times of the year. The earth's orbit is actually elliptical, not circular.

It is closest on January 3 and furthest on July 4, which often surprises people in the Northern Hemisphere. In fact the seasons are the result of the earth tilting on its axis, not the distance to the sun.

Answer 2

the area to the Moon is small in comparison even to Earth's orbital eccentricity. This planet's orbit deviates from its generic by using approximately 2 million kilometres each and each way. If there became right into an area station placed on the orbit of Venus, it does no longer be fairly heat, and areas of the top Venusian surroundings is at with regard to an identical temperature because of the fact the Earth's floor. the adaptation is that Venus had oceans which made the ambience very humid, and the water vapour trapped the warmth of the sunlight, while Mars has considered one of those skinny surroundings that it may no longer carry the warmth in lots. The procedures which convey approximately the heating or cooling are the two very sluggish and choose a lots extra beneficial distance than that between the Moon and Earth to function. additionally, because of the fact the Moon consistently orbits us, there could be a stability between warmth and chilly there in spite of if the orbit became into fairly super.

Answer 3

Technically? No.

But if you consider how huge the universe is, an inch is being generous. Seriously. Think about it.

The Earth is about 95 million miles from the sun, correct? If we were a few million miles closer, we'd burn. If we were a few million miles farther away, we'd freeze.

When you compare this number to how huge the universe is, the difference is comparable to an inch, even though it's actually a few million miles.

I didn't explain this very well...but dang it, it made sense before I typed it out.

Answer 4

No. There is what scientists call a habitable zone that the Earth could be in and still be cabaple of supporting life. This area is any distance where liquid water could exist, which, would be any distance between the orbits of Mars and Venus.

Admittedly the environments and life would be considerably different due to the differences in temperature, but life could exist.

Answer 5

No.

The Earth's distance from the Sun varies by several thousand miles in its orbit of the Sun. The Earth would have to be 20 million miles closer to the Sun to heat up to the point of extinguishing life and 30 million miles further out to freeze.

Answer 6

Nope. But the earth is in a somewhat narrow band of space in which we get just the right amount of sun for water to be liquid over most of our planet. It's not so narrow as to be defined in inches though. More like thousands of miles at the least.

Answer 7

I am not a scientist, but I really don't think so. If our system were that sensitive we would not survive a storm, or a heat wave. A wide scale light rain would freeze the whole earth.

Answer 8

No, but I think I see what point you're trying to make, no matter how obliquely. The fact is, there is life on Earth because of the conditions that have existed and currently exist on the planet. If conditions were different, there would be no life. There's nothing magical about it. Earth does not exist to support life. Life began and evolved on Earth because it was possible.

Things exist because they can.
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Answer 9

No.

Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle, and it varies from as little as 91 million miles to as much as 96 million miles from the Sun, a difference of 5 million miles.

Answer 10

Big, fat lie.

The Earth is in what is called "The Goldlock's Zone" which is about 0.95 to 1.30 astronomical units from the sun. That makes it a few million miles wide.