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Thus astronomers must have made great progress in their science before they could select as a day for counting from, the epoch when the slow reeling motion of the earth (the so-called precessional motion) brought the Pleiades centrally south, at noon, at the time of the vernal equinox.

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When these blades rotate they create large gyroscopic forces sometimes called precessional forces.

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In his Galactic Alignment theory, John Major Jenkins describes the coming 2012 event as the "precessional convergence of Milky Way and solstice sun."

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The climate change in this period is generally believed to be associated with precessional changes in the distribution of solar radiation, which primarily affect land-sea temperature contrast, and give only a regional warming, plus an enhancement of certain monsoonal circulations.

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Laskar, J. et.al., "Orbital, precessional, and insolation quantities for the Earth from -20 MYR to +10 MYR"; Astron.

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The interglacial thus lasts an additional precessional cycle, yielding a total duration of 28 kyr.

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Consider how long it took Milankovitch to calculate variation of insolation every year for 600,000 years for every 5° of latitude due to orbit, tilt and precessional changes.

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I thought of the great precessional cycle that the pole of the earth describes.

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Instead of discarding his value as too slow and accept - ing their own more rapid rate of 1° in 66 years as constant, some of them revived an ancient notion that the precessional speed swung back and forth between

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The fact of the precessional motion, already known to the

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