Earth and the other planets are warming from the inside after Vulcan passed aphelion. From LearnThat.org.
At the opposite point of its orbit, where it will be in "aphelion," or farthest from the sun, the sun will only appear about 19 minutes in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
The Earth is farthest from the sun on July 4th, or aphelion (Figure 1). From Wordnik.com. [Earth-Sun geometry] Reference
The Engineers would have given them an orbital aphelion inside the Ring. From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
Zebub had swung through its aphelion and was accelerating back toward Dyaddub. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Lensman]
Every simulations starts from point- aphelion, but when Nibiru is in aphelion?. From Wordnik.com. [2012: NASA's Scientific Reality Check | Universe Today] Reference
When we're at aphelion, it's a longer distance — six or seven AUs, at least. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
Criminy, I almost forgot: on July 4th, at roughly 08: 00 UT, the Earth was at aphelion. From Wordnik.com. [Does the Sun Look Smaller to You? | Disinformation] Reference
At the perihelion the planet is urged from the sun and at the aphelion towards the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Its orbit was nearly circular; aphelion differed from perihelion by less than one per cent. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
This would leave 81,000,000 leagues more to be traversed before reaching the aphelion of the. From Wordnik.com. [Off on a Comet] Reference
Roughly, perihelion is at about five a.u., aphelion forty or fifty thousand - ultra-cometary. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Figure 1: Position of the equinoxes, solstices, aphelion, and perihelion on the Earth's orbit. From Wordnik.com. [Earth-Sun geometry] Reference
The earth is closest to the sun on 3 January (perihelion) and farthest away on 4 July (aphelion). From Wordnik.com. [Factors affecting surface ultraviolet radiation levels in the Arctic] Reference
At present the earth is about three millions of miles nearer the sun in perihelion than in aphelion. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
When the earth is nearest the sun she is in her perihelion; and in her aphelion at the farthest point. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
The temperature of Halley's Comet varies between about 47"C at perihelion and minus 270"C at aphelion. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
The reason so many planetoids are found near aphelion is because that is where they spend most of their time. From Wordnik.com. [2012: NASA's Scientific Reality Check | Universe Today] Reference
For planets in the solar system orbiting the sun, their farthest point from the sun is referred to as aphelion. From Wordnik.com. [apogee] Reference
And when our telescopes improve to the point that we can spot them all, we'll find most of the others near aphelion. From Wordnik.com. [2012: NASA's Scientific Reality Check | Universe Today] Reference
In 12,900 years, the North will have colder winters because Earth will be furthest from the Sun (aphelion) in January. From Wordnik.com. [Milankovitch cycles] Reference
But why (we may ask) should not this also be expended on the motion of the aphelion as well as in the case of the moon?. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Figure 2: Modification of the timing of aphelion and perihelion over time (A = today; B = 13,000 years into the future). From Wordnik.com. [Causes of climate change] Reference
They ventured into the void beyond Pluto's aphelion for hundreds of millions of kilometers -- although not yet the stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Universe — or Nothing] Reference
At present the earth passes its perihelion point in the Winter of the Northern Hemisphere, and its aphelion point in the Summer. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
He even gives its periods, (about six months,) the aphelion of the orbit being near the earth's orbit, and the perihelion within. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
The northern Ice-monarch has resumed absolute sway, and our aphelion distance from the sun has increased some tens millions of miles. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
It is a constant quantity, and only unequally distributed on the earth's surface, being neither increased nor diminished, as our winters occur in aphelion or perihelion. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
'Bellows to mend!' periodically as the Earth approaches her aphelion. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
After the fourth go round he was fully five diameters out at aphelion. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirates of Ersatz] Reference
The solar tide varies between aphelion and perihelion from 1·9 to 2·1. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
Mars was in aphelion we would pass him at a distance of 61 million miles. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays] Reference
Mercury; it considerably transcends at aphelion the farthest excursion of Pallas. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Mars is then passing perihelion, while our world is at aphelion (or greatest distance from the Sun). From Wordnik.com. [Astronomy for Amateurs] Reference
For planets, the point of the orbit closest to the Sun is the perihelion, and the point farthest from the Sun is the aphelion. From Wordnik.com. [infoplease - Daily Almanac] Reference
At their perihelion, many of these bodies pass within the orbit of Mercury, while the aphelion of some lies without the path of Uranus. From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'] Reference
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