The earth is closest to the sun around ________ every year.

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SSC Steno Previous Paper 20 (Held on: 24 Dec 2020 Shift 2)

Answer 1

The correct answer is January 3.

Perihelion is the point when Earth is closest to Sun and it occurs around 3rd January. The distance is 147.5 million km.
Earth travels 939,886,400 km along its elliptical orbit in a single revolution.
The average distance is 150 million km, but the orbit is elliptical and there is the difference if 2.5 million km.

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Important Points

On about July 4th earth is Farthest from Sun and this is called Aphelion.
Speed of Earth is fastest at Perihelion and slowest at Aphelion.
The words come from Ancient Greek, in which helios means “Sun,” apo means “far,” and peri means “close.”
Earth orbits the Sun in an elliptical path—which is oval, not circular.