How to use in-sentence of “precession”:
– This shortens the period of the precession of the equinoxes from 25,771.5 to ~21,636 years.
– Gyroscopic precession causes the disc to rotate toward horizontal through its flight path.
– Stellar precession is one of the ways the stars slowly move across the sky when seen from the Earth.
– This cycle repeats approximately every 25,000 years, following the precession of the equinoxes.
– Using applied mathematics, Milutin Milanković Predictionpredicted that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth’s orbit caused climate patterns on Earth.
– Because of the precession of the equinoxes the December solstice no longer takes place while the sun is in the constellation Capricornus.
– Wegener thought that the forces that moved the continents could be caused by the rotation of the Earth and stellar precession and that same forces made earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
– Any single revolution of a body around the sun is only approximately elliptical, because the precession of the perihelion prevents the orbit from being a simple closed curve such as an ellipse.
