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chaotic obliquity: a standalone construct

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Planetary science

large, irregular swings of a planet's axial tilt driven by resonance between spin precession and orbital perturbations.

In planetary science, chaotic obliquity refers to large, irregular swings of a planet's axial tilt driven by resonance between spin precession and orbital perturbations. This meaning comes from Laskar (1993) in Nature.[1]

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tilt2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs orbital1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · one construct, one field precession3 fields · 7 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systems

References

Laskar, J., & Robutel, P. (1993). The chaotic obliquity of the planets. Nature, 361(6413), 608-612. https://doi.org/10.1038/361608a0

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