Sentences with phrase «precession of the equinoxes»

The precession of the equinoxes is caused by the differential gravitational forces of the Sun and the Moon on the Earth.

During this time, rainfall was affected by the African monsoon which strengthened and weakened on a 23,000 year cycle driven by the precession of the equinoxes.

The precession of the equinoxes refers to the precession of Earth's axis of rotation with respect to inertial space.

Precession of equinox: Earth slowly wobbles as it spins, much like a toy top, while at the same time, Earth's rotational axis — the line from the north to south poles — rotates.

Due to the slowly changing orientation of Earth's axis in space (which is also known as the Precession of the Equinoxes), Vega was the North Celestial Pole Star some 12,000 years ago and will be again in another 10,000 years.

[25] Also the observed position angles of the stars are also subject to small cumulative changes (additional to position angle changes caused by the Precession of the Equinoxes), as first determined by W. H. van den Bos in 1926.

It will become the northern polestar by about ad 14,000 because of the precession of the equinoxes.

Sailors once used the crux to find their way, and the ancient Greeks charted it before it sank below their horizon in the precession of the equinoxes, but credit for its discovery is given to the Brazilians, who dubbed it «Las Guardas.»

However, changes in eccentricity interact with seasonal effects induced by obliquity and precession of the equinoxes.

They exclude the Milankovitch Effect of changing orbit, tilt and precession of the equinox and Svensmark's cosmic explanation of solar effects on temperature.

The precession cycle causes the seasons to migrate, which is why it is also called the Precession of the Equinoxes — and why the Age of Pisces will eventually pass the torch to the Age of Aquarius.

1969 Cesare Emiliani, «Interglacial High Sea Levels and the Control of Greenland Ice by the Precession of the Equinoxes.»