- or
precession of the equator.
Earth goes
through one such
complete precessional cycle in a
period of
approximately 26,000
years or 1°
every 72 years...
- stars. The
precessional eras of each constellation,
often known as "Great Months", are given, approximately, in the
table below: The
precession of the equinoxes...
-
normal rules of
precession followed by
spinning objects. In addition, the
orbit of the Moon
undergoes two
important types of
precessional motion: apsidal...
-
angle (angle of nutation) is
constant Precession may
refer to:
Precession, one of the
Euler rotations Precession (mechanical), the
process of one part...
- In physics,
Larmor precession (named
after Joseph Larmor) is the
precession of the
magnetic moment of an
object about an
external magnetic field. The phenomenon...
- In
celestial mechanics,
orbital precession may
refer to:
Apsidal precession,
where the
major axis of an
elliptical orbit cycles its
orientation within...
-
mechanism based on
precession of the equinoxes.
Though incorrect, some
oriental astronomers at the time
believed that the
precessional cycle was 24,000...
-
corrections to the
Newtonian precession, of a
gyroscope near a
large m**** such as the earth. They are:
Thomas precession a
special relativistic correction...
-
product of the Earth's slow
precessional rotation and
lasts for 2,160 years, on
average (one 25,920 year
period of
precession, or
great year,
divided by...
- the
relativistic precession of the moon,
first published in a book by Eddington. In 1925
Thomas recomputed the
relativistic precessional frequency of the...
