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Old 24-March-2008, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip View Post
My interpretation of this finding is that the wobble of the earth actually is like a spinning top, with interactions between Jupiter and the other outer planets functioning like a whip, maintaining the exact tempo of the top in harmony with the barycentric period.
What do you think causes precession, in terms of the physics of a rotating rigid body?