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Explain earth's motion using terms rotation and precession

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Like a spinning top, our Earth rotates. Rotation is the movement of a body on its axis. ... During this rotation, the change in direction of Earth's axis of rotation is known as precession. Earth's axis precesses in a 26,000-year cycle

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