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Top 10 Facts About Earth and its Orbit Precession Of The Equinoxes, Top 10 Facts, Facts About Earth, About Earth, Age Of Aquarius, Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice, Facts About, Four Seasons

The earth passes through four seasons as it orbits the sun, along with increasing daylight length in the six months between the winter and summer solstice and decreasing daylight length between the summer solstice and the winter solstice. We also experience a 24-hour cycle that is the earth's daily rotation, and a 28-day cycle that is the moon's rotation around the earth. These are cycles that repeat indefinitely. However, many subtleties are hidden in and around these cycles, that most…

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Precession Of The Equinoxes, Ancient Sumerian, Orion Constellation, Epic Of Gilgamesh, Great Pyramid Of Giza, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Origins, Pyramids Of Giza, Mesopotamia

Gilgamesh is the ancient Sumerian epic, written some 4,000 years ago on cuneiform clay tablets and rediscovered only in the nineteenth century. It is a story that has echoes of the biblical Old Testament, with its graphic details of a great flood and the formation of mankind from the dust of the earth.

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Kochab, second brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, after Polaris. It's a giant star with 42 times the radius of the Sun, and is 130 times as bright. As recently as 500 AD, Kochab and nearby star Pherkad served as the North Stars, but due to the wobbling of the Earth's axis (procession of the equinoxes), Polaris is our current North Star. Weird Names, Ursa Minor, Giant Star, Star Light Star Bright, Star Light, Gods Creation, Bright Stars, North Star, Big Star

Kochab, second brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, after Polaris. It's a giant star with 42 times the radius of the Sun, and is 130 times as bright. As recently as 500 AD, Kochab and nearby star Pherkad served as the North Stars, but due to the wobbling of the Earth's axis (procession of the equinoxes), Polaris is our current North Star.

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