{
 "meta": {
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "Lumara (lumara-space.app), compiled from the public sources named in meta.source",
  "documentation": "https://lumara-space.app/data/",
  "title": "Earth perihelion and aphelion 2026 to 2030 (UTC, km)",
  "description": "Earth perihelion and aphelion for each year 2026 through 2030 with the UTC instant and the Earth-Sun center-to-center distance rounded to 10 km. Checked against Espenak and the US Naval Observatory: dates match on every row, distances within about 900 km, instants within about 50 minutes (the difference between tracking the center of Earth and the Earth-Moon barycenter).",
  "source": "astronomy-engine (Don Cross, MIT), cross-checked against https://astropixels.com/ephemeris/perap2001.html",
  "count": 10,
  "updated": "2026-09-04"
 },
 "data": [
  {
   "event": "perihelion",
   "time": "2026-01-03T16:42Z",
   "distance_km": 147099800
  },
  {
   "event": "aphelion",
   "time": "2026-07-06T18:00Z",
   "distance_km": 152088060
  },
  {
   "event": "perihelion",
   "time": "2027-01-03T02:08Z",
   "distance_km": 147104260
  },
  {
   "event": "aphelion",
   "time": "2027-07-05T05:04Z",
   "distance_km": 152100480
  },
  {
   "event": "perihelion",
   "time": "2028-01-05T12:45Z",
   "distance_km": 147099820
  },
  {
   "event": "aphelion",
   "time": "2028-07-03T22:38Z",
   "distance_km": 152093460
  },
  {
   "event": "perihelion",
   "time": "2029-01-02T18:50Z",
   "distance_km": 147098300
  },
  {
   "event": "aphelion",
   "time": "2029-07-06T05:13Z",
   "distance_km": 152098350
  },
  {
   "event": "perihelion",
   "time": "2030-01-03T11:00Z",
   "distance_km": 147105880
  },
  {
   "event": "aphelion",
   "time": "2030-07-04T12:59Z",
   "distance_km": 152099430
  }
 ]
}