Milankovitch cycle
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Etymology
Named after the Serbian geophysicist Milutin Milanković (1879-1958).
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Milankovitch cycle (plural Milankovitch cycles)
- (climatology) Any of the three cyclic variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, respectively the obliquity of its axis, the precession of the equinoxes, and the eccentricity of its orbit.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 378:
- The Milankovitch cycles alone are not enough to explain cycles of ice ages.
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