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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4945. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth, Planetary Dynamics

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Short-period oscillations in the long-term motion of the pole of rotation of a rotating body that is being acted on by external perturbing forces. In the case of the Earth, the gravitational attractions of the Sun and Moon on its equatorial bulge causes the direction of its axis, and hence the positions of the celestial poles, to revolve slowly around the pole of the ecliptic (the points on the c...

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