
How stable is the Earth's orbit?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Stability of the Earth's Orbit
If the earth plunges into the sun we will pay you any arbitrary amount of money. Just give us a million dollars a year. That's right submit your request to this P.O. box. To make people think about all the different ways that the universe can kill them. Maybe we should be selling earth orbit insurance somehow. A bazillion dollars. Exactly. But yeah it's kind of an interesting question. How stable is the earth's orbit because I guess we're going around the sun pretty steadily right? Is our orbit like do we always go through the same spot in the solar system or is our orbit kind of wobbly? There are some changes in the eccentricity
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