OT: Earth's orbit changing?

[Lexicon]

Originally posted by Spoo:
But increasing the distance between the earth and the sun would would make earth orbit faster. Recall Kepler's third law, period^2 = distance^3.

You got the law right but the relationship wrong. Period is the inverse of speed. Therefore a longer period means a slower moving body. (Though it isn't really that simple due to the fact that an increased distence means a longer circumference of the orbit.)

[ January 09, 2004, 21:24: Message edited by: Lexicon ]