The Qatar Calendar House has announced that planet Earth will reach its closest point in its orbit around the sun (perihelion point) the day after tomorrow, Wednesday 11 of the month of Jumada al-Akhirah 1444 AH, corresponding to January 4, 2023 AD, at 19 :17 Doha local time, where the Earth will be about 147 million km from the sun, and about five million km away from what it was during the month of July.
And the house said in a statement today that the earth reaches its closest point in its orbit around the sun (perihelion) in early January each year, while it reaches its farthest point in its orbit around the sun (point of ‘aphelion) during July of each year.
Interestingly, the change in the distance between the earth and the sun is not the reason for the occurrence of climate change on the surface of the earth, but it plays an important role in influencing the number of days of the four astronomical seasons, and this phenomenon is also a natural phenomenon, and has no negative effects on the inhabitants of the globe, as claimed by non-experts.
He explained that there is a strange paradox, although the earth is at its closest point to the sun in January (winter season), the temperature is low, and conversely, when it is at its furthest point from the sun in July (summer season) , the temperature is high. ; This is due to the fact that the angle of fall of the sun’s rays in the winter season is more inclined for the inhabitants of the northern hemisphere during the month of January, which makes them penetrate a greater distance into the atmosphere and thus lose a a large part of their heat, while the angle of fall of the sun’s rays in summer is vertical. For the inhabitants of the northern hemisphere during the month of July, it penetrates a shorter distance from the atmosphere and does not lose much of its heat hot, and the situation is completely opposite for the inhabitants of the southern hemisphere.
