Is it true that the Earth is getting closer to the sun?

Answer 1

No. In actual fact, the Sun loses small amounts of mass continuously through a phenomenon called the solar wind. (That's what causes the Northern Lights). As the Sun loses mass, Earth actually orbits a bit farther out.

Answer 2

Only Keith P got it right. Everybody else was wrong. The sun loses 3x10-14 MSun per year. The sun's mass is 1.9891×10^30 kg. So the total mass loss is 5.94x10^16kg/year. That's almost two million tons per second.

The slowly decreasing mass will lead to slowly enlarging planetary orbits. On the scale of orbital changes due to gravitational interaction with the other planets this is totally irrelevant, though.

Answer 3

No. The Earth keeps its orbit around the sun and is not changing towards the sun.

Answer 4

We are destroying the matter that exist between the Earth and the Sun, which is causing Global Warming. It puts us closer in a way.

Answer 5

I have no heard any references to global warming, but the Earth is approaching the sun, but the rate is so slow that the sun would have either died or we would have died by the time, and i think theres a 0.5 C temperature increase every century due to this

Answer 6

In a way yes. Because we are destroying a lot of things which helps us for our existence. Like the ozone layer. Because of the release of various substaces into the atomsophere we destroy our selves and this distruction might can lead for us to get closer to sun.But earth is revolving around sun in it's orbit. So this matter is somehow complicated.

Answer 7

i think it is as

sun is expanding slowly and quietly, as it is a star and in a half lifetime of a star, the star starts expanding, getting in to other stage, perhaps supernova

same as our childhood, teens, adult, old.

Answer 8

yes, but by the time the world and the sun collide there will be no civilization that exists on this planet...hope that helps