# How does Jupiter not pull earth way out of its orbit

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**Created:** [May 23, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-jupiter-not-pull-earth-way-out-of-its-orbit/964949 "2022-05-23T18:44:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-jupiter-not-pull-earth-way-out-of-its-orbit/964949/4 "2022-05-23T19:11:00Z")

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We had a discussion of something much like this a while back

> [@Why does Jupiter NOT effect global warming?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-jupiter-not-effect-global-warming/816038/44):
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> I’m somewhat surprised to find that Newton talked about this issue, writing [Page:Newton's Principia (1846).djvu/537 - Wikisource, the free online library](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Newton%27s_Principia_(1846).djvu/537) “About the sun thus librated the other planets are revolved in elliptic orbits (p 403), and, by radii drawn to the sun, describe areas nearly proportional to the times, as is explained in Prop. LXV. If the sun was quiescent, and the other planets did not act mutually one upon another, their orbits would be elliptic, and the areas exactly propo…

In summary, Jupiter pulls both the Earth and the Sun almost equally. Because the Earth and Sun are not precisely the same location, there is a differential effect (the Earth gets pulled by a slightly different amount than the Sun gets pulled), and this differential perturbation does affect Earth’s orbit slightly, but it’s only a slight effect.

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