Angle between the rotational axis and orbital axis of a body.
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Examples for "obliquity"
Examples for "obliquity"
1For his indiscretions, never involving moral obliquity, he had most grievously answered.
2In their opinion, only the strangest obliquity of judgment can explain such infatuation.
3There seemed to be a kind of natural obliquity about her.
4We are told that the difference is one of moral obliquity.
5But this now carries with it no implication of moral obliquity.
1Also Venus has no significant axial tilt, which means no seasons.
2It needed a Moon to stabilise its axial tilt.
3It's because of the Earth's axial tilt.
4No axial tilt to speak of.
5This demonstration helps pupils understand why the Earth's axial tilt ensures it's hotter at the equator than at higher latitudes
1The Chinese also determined the obliquity of the ecliptic eleven hundred years before our era.
2The obliquity of the ecliptic is, to a degree, sustained by the relationship between Moon and Earth.
3Technically, the difference is due to the eccentricity of the earth's orbit and the obliquity of the ecliptic.
4By these he had calculated the obliquity of the ecliptic, closely enough to serve for a thousand years after.
5Pythagoras taught the obliquity of the ecliptic, probably learned in Egypt, and the identity of the morning and evening stars.
6Belt, on the other hand, held that the cold was due to an increase in the obliquity of the ecliptic.
7Pythagoras, born 580 B.C., taught the obliquity of the ecliptic, probably learned in Egypt, and the identity of the morning and evening stars.
8He had investigated the obliquity of the ecliptic with extreme care, so far as the circumstances of astronomical observation would at that time permit.
9They determined the obliquity of the ecliptic, one thousand one hundred years before our era, to be 23 degrees 54' 3-15.
10"He determined," says Delambre, "the position of the stars by right ascensions and declinations, and was acquainted with the obliquity of the ecliptic.
Translations for obliquity of the ecliptic