precession
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The system works by taking advantage of gyroscopic precession, which occurs when a spinning object reacts to an outside force.
From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026
The researchers took this pattern of wobbling and worked it into the original theory for Lense-Thirring precession.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2024
In ancient times before Earth’s precession shifted the stars toward the south, the stars of Crux were visible from Europe.
From National Geographic • Aug. 23, 2023
Among other things, it was Hipparchus himself who first discovered Earth’s precession, and he modelled the apparent motions of the Sun and Moon.
From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2022
But modern astrologers have forgotten about the precession of the equinoxes, which Ptolemy understood.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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