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Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, And There's One in The Next 11,000 Years
Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.
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Orbital eccentricity may have led to young underground ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas
Saturn's moon Mimas could have grown a huge underground ocean as its orbital eccentricity decreased to its present value and caused its icy shell to melt and thin. "In our previous work ...
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Our next ice age is due in 10,000 years, but there's a catch
a phenomenon called orbital eccentricity. The authors found each glaciation period in the last 900,000 years followed a predictable pattern. Transitions between glacial and interglacial periods ...
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This extreme exoplanet has a highly unusual orbit
Pluto, for example, has a highly elongated orbit compared to the planets in our solar system and has an orbital eccentricity of 0.25. Earth has an orbital eccentricity of just 0.02. This new ...