-
planetary precession, as
early as 1863,
while the
dominant component was
named lunisolar precession.
Their combination was
named general precession, instead...
- case of Earth, this type of
precession is also
known as the
precession of the equinoxes,
lunisolar precession, or
precession of the equator.
Earth goes...
-
ecliptic with a
period of
about 26,000 years, a
process known as
lunisolar precession, as it is due
mostly to the
gravitational effect of the Moon and...
- of a new year
based on
lunar calendars or,
informally but more widely,
lunisolar calendars. Typically, both
types of
calendar begin with a new moon but...
-
fixed annual date on the
solar calendar, or on a
specific day of the
lunisolar calendar. The
observance of
these festivals often varies by region, with...
- the
March equinox, is not
quite fixed. A slow
motion of Earth's axis,
precession,
causes a slow,
continuous turning of the
coordinate system westward about...
- it aims to match. Historically,
lunisolar calendars intercalated entire leap
months on an
observational basis.
Lunisolar calendars have
mostly fallen out...
- in motion, e.g. by the
precession of the equinoxes,
nowadays often resolved into
precessional components,
separate precessions of the
equator and of the...
- Croll's
earlier hypothesis that
variations in eccentricity,
axial tilt, and
precession combined to
result in
cyclical variations in the intra-annual and latitudinal...
- ÷ (1,602,961,601.0312 × 1,602,961,601.0312) = −0.00000025238 days/cy.
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