Precession

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Buckminster Fuller tells us that Precession is "the effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion."

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  • Precession: Owing to the slow motion of the earth's pole around the pole of the ecliptic, the equator cuts the ecliptic a little earlier every year, so that the equinox each year slightly precedes, with reference to the stars, that of the previous year —  Kepler
  • The Earth 'wobbles', it doesnt't rotate in a perfect Axis like your 5th grade globes all throughout its orbits …. please look up Precession of the Equinoxes. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, which varies over a 41,000 year period; the shape of the earth's orbit, which changes over a period of 100,000 years; and the Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the earth's 'wobble', which gradually rotates the direction of the earth's axis over a period of 26,000 years. —  word of mouth
  • Precession of the equinox-this cycle of approximately 26,000 years is produced by the wobble of the Earth's axis. —  Aftermath News
  • Buckminster Fuller tells us that Precession is "the effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion." —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
 

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