When these blades rotate they create large gyroscopic forces sometimes called precessional forces. From Wordnik.com. [EarthToys Alternative Energy News] Reference
Thus astronomers must have made great progress in their science before they could select as a day for counting from, the epoch when the slow reeling motion of the earth (the so-called precessional motion) brought the Pleiades centrally south, at noon, at the time of the vernal equinox. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference
The fact of the precessional motion, already known to the. From Wordnik.com. [TIME] Reference
The interglacial thus lasts an additional precessional cycle, yielding a total duration of 28 kyr. From Wordnik.com. [Inconvenient Graphic « Climate Audit] Reference
In his Galactic Alignment theory, John Major Jenkins describes the coming 2012 event as the "precessional convergence of Milky Way and solstice sun.". From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part three] Reference
Instead of discarding his value as too slow and accept - ing their own more rapid rate of 1° in 66 years as constant, some of them revived an ancient notion that the precessional speed swung back and forth between. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
If the strength of the magnetic field is known, the magnetic factor of the electron and of the atomic nucleus can also be estimated by this means, provided that we can observe and measure these precessional frequencies. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 and 1944 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The climate change in this period is generally believed to be associated with precessional changes in the distribution of solar radiation, which primarily affect land-sea temperature contrast, and give only a regional warming, plus an enhancement of certain monsoonal circulations. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Economic Climate Change Denialism:] Reference
The shortest of these cycles, precessional forcing, has a period of around. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
The precessional effect is bound to be dire -- especially for working people. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Personal Finance: Calculators,Money Advice,Guides,& More] Reference
The earth's precessional rotations determine where in Africa the monsoon rains will fall, sometimes causing them to be pushed farther north. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from The Sun] Reference
Fat saturation • As we have learned to satruate fat a 900 pre - saturaton pulse will need to be applied at the precessional frequency of fat. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
We know the Ancients knew of it because they use precessional numbers in their stories and myths and incorporate it into Mischa Barton goes green. From Wordnik.com. Reference
That said, possibly anybody attempting to do a regional climate forecast for 2200 CE might do well to take this precessional effect into account. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
We know the Ancients knew of it because they use precessional numbers in their stories and myths and incorporate it into Random Word Bank Wednesday. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It will, therefore, be obvious that there is a profound difference between the precessional effect of the sun and of the moon in their action on the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
There are only two bodies in the universe which sensibly contribute to the precessional movement of the earth's axis: these bodies are the sun and the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
We know the Ancients knew of it because they use precessional numbers in their stories and myths and incorporate it into New Episodes of Kids Shows This Week. From Wordnik.com. Reference
We know the Ancients knew of it because they use precessional numbers in their stories and myths and incorporate it into Astrological Society of Connecticut New Age Fair. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The 20,000-year precessional cycle of the global monsoon, for example, is responsible for the collapse of several Asian and African ancient cultures at ~ 4000 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference
The movement of the moon's plane, only occupying about 18-2/3 years, is a very rapid motion compared with the whole precessional movement, which occupies about 26,000 years. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Heavens] Reference
And, since Mercury is so close to the sun, where the curvature of space is so much greater, the difference between Newton's prediction and the actual precessional rate is quite apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Blogging] Reference
'No one whatever amongst men,' says Professor Smyth after recording various estimates of the precessional period, 'from his own or school knowledge, knew anything about such a phenomenon, until. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Marvels of Astronomy] Reference
SPIR advantage • As mentioned chemical fat suppression relies on the precessional fq. of fat and for optium results the precessional frequency of a volume should be the same but this is unrealistic. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Fishbaugh and colleagues have found an intriguing resonance between the ratio of marker beds to fine layers (20,30: 1) and the ratio of the orbital inclination to the precessional period of Mars's axis (23: 1). From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
There were besides two other numerical coincidences quite as extraordinary; an identity of direction, relative to the stars, of the equator and orbit of the moon; exactly the same precessional movements of these two planes. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference
The axis of the earth describes its precessional orbit or conical motion every 26,000 years, as had long been known; but superposed upon this great movement have now been detected minute nods, each with a period of nineteen years. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
Dr. Jose Mendoza writes so and it seems there was a paper at last winter's AGU meeting along these lines; the last time the precessional cycle brought the thermal equator to the north the Amazon Basin was mostly savannah and also the time before that. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
(precessional is the official term i think in english) forces are canceled out!. From Wordnik.com. [freshnews.org - most clicked links] Reference
These were all equimultiples of the Cycle of the Neros 600, and of 2160, the twelfth part of the equinoctial precessional Cycle, and in all formed ten ages of 432,000 years each. ". From Wordnik.com. [The God-Idea of the Ancients] Reference
By precessional motion the foot of. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Bible] Reference
4) When you go on even longer timescales (Holocene) a comparison becomes more problematic since seasonal (precessional) insolation becomes very different. jae. From Wordnik.com. [Green Alps #1 « Climate Audit] Reference
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