A Conversation for Precession of the Earth on its Axis
The 71,000 years?
JohnDM Started conversation May 18, 2001
Hi,
You wrote:
"The pull of gravity of the other planets in the solar system causes the Earth's orbit around the Sun to precess. This effect is very much smaller than that caused by the Sun and Moon on the Earth, however. It has a much longer period of 71000 years."
Please could you explain this a touch more.
Thanks
John DM
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