The developer put as much as possible
in Aphelion as I especially liked the side story's that are hidden throughout the game.
There are plenty of items to find and craft
in Aphelion that will definitely satisfy the loot fix gamers out there.
Not exact matches
For instance, if your day happened to start when Mercury was at its
aphelion, the sun would rise
in the east, hover for a while, loop about the sky, and set, finally,
in the west.
A favored size for Planet X emerged — between five and 15 Earth masses — as well as a preferred orbit: antialigned
in space from the six small objects, so that its perihelion is
in the same direction as the six objects»
aphelion, or farthest point from the sun.
As the cometary fragments would move
in their orbit towards
aphelion, they would disappear from our line of sight completely, while producing no excess amounts of infrared radiation
in the process, thus helping to explain the lack of the latter from the surveys that have been conducted with both WISE and Spitzer.
The large 20 - AU difference between Pluto's perihelion and
aphelion distance results
in interesting chemistry on Pluto's surface and
in its atmosphere.
The Nightsithe better hope to not catch his hands, because the Hands of
Aphelion are four floating hands that can either rip apart the enemies
in melee or blow them away with four guns at the same time.
During
aphelion water ice clouds form
in the atmosphere, interacting with the dust particles and affecting the temperature of the planet.
Aphelion has the right sci - fi feeling soundtrack that fits perfectly for the atmosphere it dwells
in.
But eccentricity modulates the effect of precession (the alignment of perihelion and
aphelion with solstices or equinoxes)(actually, obliquity does modulate this too, but while obliquity variations have significant effect by themselves, they are relatively small
in proportion to the difference with zero obliquity, whereas Earth's eccentricity variations include getting near zero, where
aphelion and perihelion would have no effect as they wouldn't exist.
The
aphelion is
in early July (min TSI) and that's also aproximately when maximum annual global temperature occurs.
The reason is that the greater total heat
in joules applied to the hemisphere more oriented towards the Sun during perihelion (near Sun) turns out to be cancelled by the greater heat applied to the other hemisphere during
aphelion (distant from Sun).
One fairly minor item Steven and I both left out is that summer starts
in PHX close to
aphelion, the Earth's far point from from the Sun.
Earth's orbit around the Sun is an ellipse, with a perihelion (closest approach) of 147.5 million km (91.7 million miles)
in early January and an
aphelion (farthest distance) of 152.6 million km (94.8 million miles)
in early July.
Earth is about 147.1 million kilometers (91.4 million miles) from the Sun at perihelion
in early January,
in contrast to about 152.1 million kilometers (94.5 million miles) at
aphelion in early July.
Of course the cause of seasons on Pluto will be dominated by the differences
in Perihelion (4.4 billion km) and
Aphelion (7.4 billion km) instead of the tilt and geographic distribution like on the Earth.
What's not insignificant is the change
in insolation between perihelion and
aphelion where one loses almost precisely what the other gains.
In science we calculate: The eccentricity of Jupiter's orbit is about 5 %, that means that the difference between perihelion and
aphelion distances is twice that, namely 10 %.
It shows a small fluctuation
in the perihelion /
aphelion distances of about 15000 kilometers that are caused by planetary perturbations on a regular cycle.
The difference
in gravitational pressure on earth between perihelion and
aphelion is around 4.6 MPa.
: EMB - Sun SSB Distance: The major axis (Perh - Sun -
Aphelion) is the line Jan / 03 - Sun - Jul 04 and here
in the graph these days are omitted on purpose, on all other days the axis length is not 2xAU, due to the ellipse shape of the orbit.
Croll (1864); Croll (1875); Croll predicted glaciation when the Earth was at
aphelion in winter.
In April 2009 I produced a graph that nearly mirrors Nicola's graph A but is based on the Jupiter perihelion /
aphelion distances.
The modulation
in Jupiter's perihelion /
aphelion distances is mainly brought about
in my opinion by the gravitational perturbations induced by Saturn, a link to my original research can be found HERE.
In 2015, the Earth will reach its
Aphelion at 19:41 (7:41 pm) UTC on July 6, 2015.
Aphelion will support interoperability with the Ethereum blockchain but not
in the first release but most likely this year, with developers shooting for Q2.
The
Aphelion (APH) cryptographic token will be stored
in a public decentralized blockchain.