Sentences with phrase «how obliquity»
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Precession, which decides whether the Earth is closer to the sun in July or in January, is on a 23,000 - year cycle; obliquity, which decides how tilted the axis of the Earth is and therefore how warm the summer is, is on a 41,000 - year cycle; and eccentricity, which decides how rounded or elongated the Earth's orbit is and therefore how close to the sun the planet gets, is on a 100,000 - year cycle.
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Obliquity: Obliquity describes how tilted a planet's axis is (Fig. 3 shows the obliquity of eight planets, plus Pluto which is labeled as a planet).