"John Hall" wrote in message
Is the last question intended to be rhetorical? If the sun wasn't there,
Earth would be frozen solid, possibly with some of the gases in the
atmosphere turning into liquid form. There'd be a certain amount of heat
escaping from the molten core of the planet, but not enough to prevent
it being extremely cold.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)

Not sure about that one John, without the gravitational hold of the sun, the
Earths core would be long since frozen solid.

Alex.