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This 26,000 year cycle is composed of 12 shorter cycles of slightly over 5000 years each, and is called the Precession of the Equinox.
2012: Armageddon or Quantum Leap? Gregg Braden's Answer-Fractal Time 2009
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Climate change is part of a natural cycle caused by the oscillation of the Earth's axis (26000 year cycle) also known as the Precession of the Equinoxes.
WN.com - Articles related to Asia pollution blows around globe due to monsoon 2010
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Climate change is part of a natural cycle caused by the oscillation of the Earth's axis (26000 year cycle) also known as the Precession of the Equinoxes.
WN.com - Articles related to Asia pollution blows around globe due to monsoon 2010
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Climate change is part of a natural cycle caused by the oscillation of the Earth's axis (26000 year cycle) also known as the Precession of the Equinoxes.
WN.com - Articles related to Asia pollution blows around globe due to monsoon 2010
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Climate change is part of a natural cycle caused by the oscillation of the Earth's axis (26000 year cycle) also known as the Precession of the Equinoxes.
WN.com - Articles related to Asia pollution blows around globe due to monsoon 2010
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As the ancient Mayans mapped the stars they became aware of an astrological cycle we now call the Precession of the Equinoxes.
unknown title 2009
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Now, owing to "Precession," the place of the Spring Equinox has moved to the right, and is in Pisces, and not far from Aquarius. coincide with the Equator of the Sky -- forming an imaginary circle half-way between the North and South celestial poles.
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Precession (also called Precession of the Equinoxes): the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon on Earth’s equatorial bulge causes the poles to slowly wobble.
Milankovitch cycles 2009
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Nole's "Precession" was similarly interspersed in three evanescent parts, leading and bleeding into the pieces that followed.
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Precession was a new phaenomenon, and latins -mainly- viewed it with suspicion since it was not following "the tradition of the older calculations of Eudoxus and Meton" see Columella and Pliny elder.
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