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This can lead to Earth's orbit precessing around the sun.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
But Earth has a massive Moon, which pulls on Earth’s spin axis and drives it to precess faster.
—Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
And because jets are thought to align with the axis of the disk, a precessing disk should also produce a corkscrew jet.
—science.org, 25 Apr. 2023
The rocket soon appeared to begin precessing about its long axis like a toy top slowing down.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
If the black holes' spins are out of alignment with their orbit, then the black hole spins will precess like spinning tops while also maintaining their anti-alignment.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2022
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
But Earth has a massive Moon, which pulls on Earth’s spin axis and drives it to precess faster.
—Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
And because jets are thought to align with the axis of the disk, a precessing disk should also produce a corkscrew jet.
—science.org, 25 Apr. 2023
The rocket soon appeared to begin precessing about its long axis like a toy top slowing down.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
If the black holes' spins are out of alignment with their orbit, then the black hole spins will precess like spinning tops while also maintaining their anti-alignment.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2022
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“Precess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/precess. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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