// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did orbital precession say to its date? You're progressing in my orbit.
In celestial mechanics, orbital precession may refer to:
- Apsidal precession, where the major axis of an elliptical orbit cycles its orientation within its orbital plane.
- Nodal precession, where non-spherical objects cause orbiting objects to change their orbits.
Not to be confused with:
- Axial precession, where the rotation axis of a spinning object traces a conical path like a top.
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