precession

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The football also undergoes precession and this motion creates an aerodynamic twisting that, on average, pushes the nose of the football down, the physicists showed.

From New York Times

Their heads spin in one direction, while the tail rotates around it in the opposite direction in a process known as precession—much like Earth spinning on its axis while orbiting the Sun.

From Science Magazine

This led to the recognition of regular changes in key astronomical parameters: the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit around the Sun, and the obliquity and precession of Earth’s rotational axis.

From Nature

However, such precession is probably not necessary to produce the FRBs in the first place.

From Nature

Due to changes in the Earth's spin axis, an event known as precession that happens over a 26,000-year cycle, the North Star is Polaris.

From Fox News