{"id":29866,"date":"2020-07-28T19:37:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T00:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29866"},"modified":"2020-07-28T19:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T00:37:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-588","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/28\/word-of-the-day-588\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nutation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Astronomical nutation<\/b>\u00a0is a phenomenon which causes the orientation of the axis of\u00a0<a title=\"Rotation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotation\">rotation<\/a>\u00a0of a spinning\u00a0<a title=\"Astronomical object\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astronomical_object\">astronomical object<\/a>\u00a0to vary over time. It is caused by the\u00a0<a title=\"Gravity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravity\">gravitational<\/a>\u00a0forces of other nearby bodies acting upon the spinning object. Although they are caused by the same effect operating over different timescales, astronomers usually make a distinction between\u00a0<i><a title=\"Axial precession\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axial_precession\">precession<\/a><\/i>, which is a steady long-term change in the axis of rotation, and\u00a0<i>nutation<\/i>, which is the combined effect of similar shorter-term variations.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Astronomical_nutation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/grahamhancock.com\/motlochw1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hansen\u2019s Star Map And The Precession Of The Equinoxes Circle<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Wally Motloch, <em><strong>Graham Hancock<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/motlochw1_html_45637498-1024x661-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29867\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/motlochw1_html_45637498-1024x661-1.jpg?resize=800%2C516&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/motlochw1_html_45637498-1024x661-1.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/motlochw1_html_45637498-1024x661-1.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/motlochw1_html_45637498-1024x661-1.jpg?resize=768%2C496&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/motlochw1_html_45637498-1024x661-1.jpg?resize=232%2C150&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/motlochw1_html_45637498-1024x661-1.jpg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutation: Astronomical nutation\u00a0is a phenomenon which causes the orientation of the axis of\u00a0rotation\u00a0of a spinning\u00a0astronomical object\u00a0to vary over time. It is caused by the\u00a0gravitational\u00a0forces of other nearby bodies acting upon the spinning object. Although they are caused by the same effect operating over different timescales, astronomers usually make a distinction \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/28\/word-of-the-day-588\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29868,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29866\/revisions\/29868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}