Precession

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4574.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4574. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Solar System Models And Concepts

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The slow periodic change in the orientation of the Earth's axis of rotation due to gravitational attractions of the Sun and Moon on the non-spherical globe (geoid) of the Earth. The effect is often referred to as luni-solar precession. The term is also applied to the periodic change in the rotation axis of any spinning body, for example, an artificial satellite. The axis of the Earth is inclined ...

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