The Supreme Court of the Galactic Federation must give approval before any changes can be made to the orbits of objects larger than one micron. The Supreme Court of the Galactic Federation was not informed in this case a failure that must be viewed with the utmost seriousness.
This Fluther answer is official notification that the Supreme Court of the Galactic Federation has met to discuss this matter and has decided under terms SC12/45/34 of the Galactic penal code that the planet known to its inhabitants as Earth will be towed out of its nice circular orbit and placed in an extremely uncomfortable elliptical orbit for a period of ten Earth years beginning on 1 January 2024.