One of the easiest and best ways to get free checked baggage is by purchasing your airline ticket with a frequent flyer credit card. Some frequent flyer credit cards offer the first checked bag free of charge as a special benefit to card members.
Barrow boy. 1 vote Vote for this answer. The Earth is closest to the Sun (this is called perihelion) around January 2 each year (91.4 million miles = 147.1 million {km);} it is farthest away from the Sun (this is called aphelion) around July 2 each year (94.8 million miles = 152.6 million km).arrow boy. 1 vote Vote for this answer. The Earth is closest to the Sun (this is called perihelion) around January 2 each year (91.4 million miles = 147.1 million {km);} it is farthest away from the Sun (this is called aphelion) around July 2 each year (94.8 million miles = 152.6 million km).
Thus, they all have a closest and a farthest point from the sun: a perihelion and an aphelion. Orbital eccentricity measures the flatness of the orbit. Earth comes closest to the sun every year around January 3. It is farthest from the sun every year around July 4.t is the opposite of aphelion, which is where [& when] the orbit of the object is farthest from the sun. The word perihelion stems from the Greek words peri, meaning near, and  Helios , meaning the Greek god of the sun. (The similar word, perigee, refers to the nearest point in some object's orbit of earth .).