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Precession is a slow wobble of the Earth on
its axis, like that of a spinning top. The
gravitational pulls of the Sun and Moon on
the Earth's equatorial bulge cause the
Earth's axis to trace out a circle on the sky
every 25,800 years.
Subject by: Vince Pike