Published:
February 27, 2012
The “tap” that causes Earth’s axis to precess is gravity from the Sun and Moon and, to a much lesser extent, the planets. Gravity alone, however, won’t do the trick. Earth has a slight equatorial bulge, and it’s this bulge that gets the gravitational tug.
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