Aphelion is becoming a trending topic on various Sciene Websites and is busy discussed because it is associated with the cause of cold temperatures in some parts of Indonesia. The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan) denied aphelion as a trigger of cold temperatures. Then, what is an Aphelion ???
Head of Lapan Thomas Djamaluddin said aphelion is a phenomenon in which the position of the earth is at the farthest point with the sun.
The orbit of the earth is not perfectly circular, but an ellipse, so there is the closest distance to the sun called perihelion that occurs every January, and there is the greatest distance from the sun which he calls aphelion, which happens every July," Thomas said. So that's a routine event every year. The Earth is at its closest distance (by the sun) in January and farthest in July.
There was no significant impact of the aphelion phenomenon on the earth. Thomas states that the cold temperatures that currently occur due to a gust of wind from the southern part of the earth that is experiencing cold temperatures.
There is no significant impact on the earth, so cold temperatures lately and later until August it is common in the dry season, because the position of the sun is currently in the northern hemisphere, then the air pressure in the northern hemisphere is lower than the hemisphere south, which is winter, so the wind is blowing from south to north and now the wind is blowing from winter Australia, so its effect is the cooling effect, and that's what's happening now. " Said Thomas Djamaluddin
Scientists explain the position of the earth that is at the furthest point from the sun also does not affect the heat received by the earth. According to him, the heat emitted by the sun to the earth will be distributed to all parts of the earth, although affected by wind patterns that happen to be currently blowing from the southern hemisphere.
The heat from the sun is distributed throughout the earth. And the most significant distribution affects it from wind patterns. So because now the wind is blowing from the southern direction that is experiencing winter, then we will feel a cooler temperature as well.
