The inclination of the Earth's orbit has a 100, 000-year cycle relative to the invariable plane.
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The invariable plane, the plane that represents the angular momentum of the Solar System, is approximately the orbital plane of Jupiter.
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See Poinsot's construction, which is summarized by the delightful phrase " the polhode rolls without slipping on the herpolhode lying in the invariable plane ".
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It has been proposed that a disk of dust and other debris exists in the invariable plane, and this affects the Earth's climate through several possible means.
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These two constraints operate in different reference frames; the ellipsoidal constraint holds in the ( rotating ) principal axis frame, whereas the invariable plane constant operates in absolute space.
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This change was needed because the poles of some asteroids and comets precess rapidly enough for their north and south poles to swap within a few decades using the invariable plane definition.
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For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth's North pole.
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:See Poles of astronomical bodies, which has " The north pole is that pole of rotation that lies on the north side of the invariable plane of the solar system ".
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Laplace's name is sometimes applied to the invariable plane, which is the plane perpendicular to a system's mean angular momentum vector, but the two should not be confused.
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The invariable plane is simply derived from the sum of angular momenta, and is " invariable " over the entire system, while the Laplace plane may be different for different orbiting objects within a system.