Nutation

Nutation

A small nodding motion in a rotating body. Earth's nutation has a period of 18.6 years and an amplitude of 9.2 arc seconds.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.

0 0

Improve it

Add an image

Part of Speech: noun
Synonym(s):
Blossary:
Industry/Domain: Aerospace
Category: Space flight
Company: NASA
Product:
Acronym-Abbreviation:

Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

Related terms

nutation

Chronometry; Clock

A small oscillation of the Earth's axis of rotation about its mean position, due to the moon's attraction on the Earth's equatorial bulge, superimposed on the slow rotation of the ...

nutation

Aerospace; Space flight

A small nodding motion in a rotating body. Earth's nutation has a period of 18.6 years and an amplitude of 9.2 arc seconds.

nutation

Agriculture; General agriculture

Movement of plant parts caused by irregular growth, such as the circular movement detected in growing seedlings and the "searching" movement of growing young tendrils.

nutation

Language; Encyclopedias

Name given to a slight oscillatory movement noticeable in the celestial pole of the earth, due to the latter not being a perfect sphere.

nutation

Alternative therapy; Osteopathy

Nodding forward; anterior movement of the sacral base around a transverse axis in relation to the ilia.

constant of nutation

Earth science; Mapping science

The amplitude of that term, in the equation for nutation in obliquity, which has the period of the longitude of the Moon's ascending node. Alternatively, the coefficient of cosΩ ...

lunar probe

Aerospace; Space flight

A lunar probe is a scientific space exploration mission in which a man-made spacecraft is sent into the Moon orbital space. China launched its latest lunar probe, the Chang'e-2, ...

estimated approach time

Aerospace; Space flight

The time at which air traffic control (ATC) expects that an arriving aircraft following a delay will leave the holding point.

Discovery

Aerospace; Space flight

The oldest of NASA's three surviving space shuttles, Discovery’s maiden voyage was in 1984. It made both return-to-flight missions following the Challenger and Columbia disasters, ...

Kwant 2

Aerospace; Space flight

Kwant 2 was a module of the Soviet space station MIR.

Kwant

Aerospace; Space flight

Kwant was a module of the Soviet space station MIR.

Laika

Aerospace; Space flight

Laika was a dog that was sent to space by the Soviet Union. She is the first animal that was sent to space.

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L

0
Terms
0
Blossaries
1
Followers

Industry/Domain: People Category: Politicians

Hugo Chavez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was the President of Venezuela since 1999. After an unsuccessful coup d'etat in 1992 against ...