Sentences with phrase «rotation axis relative»
And, as one geophysicist writes, «the torques from the sun, moon, and planets move the rotation axis [of Earth] in space; torques from the atmosphere, ocean, and fluid core move the rotation axis relative to the crust of Earth.
http://discovermagazine.com/ Not exact matches
The time it takes for Earth to complete one rotation is affected by anything that changes the distribution of the planet's mass relative to its axis of rotation.
What Sidorenko writes in that paper does not tell that changes in rotation would affect weather or climate more than the really small relative changes in the LOD and axis of rotation unavoidably do.
Those forces and motions are driven by the following: First, the motions of the Earth relative to the Sun: the periodic changes in its elliptical orbit, its rotation about its polar axis, changes in the tilt of that axis, and the precession of that axis.
Obliquity is the angle of a planet's axis of rotation relative to its orbital plane.
The length of a day (one complete rotation of the earth on its axis and relative to the Sun [a rotation relative to the stars is about four minutes quicker]-RRB- varies, so is not well suited as a unit of time.