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How Orbital Eccentricity Changes the Amount of Solar Radiation Earth Receives

How Orbital Eccentricity Changes the Amount of Solar Radiation Earth Receives
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Description: and back about every 100,000 years.
(The extent of the elongation in part (a) has been exaggerated.) When the orbit is more elliptical, the Earth moves both closer to and farther from the Sun during a year than it does when the orbit is less elliptical.

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