An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

But supermoons would even more rare if the moon didn't precess. Over many years, the moon's precession changes its orientation slightly. It's often hard to differentiate a supermoon and a regular ...

Traditionally, there are two disjointed topics in rotating fluids: convective fluid motion driven by buoyancy, discussed by Chandrasekhar (1961), and inertial waves and precession-driven flow, ...