Stabilization of the Earth's obliquity by the Moon

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  title={Stabilization of the Earth's obliquity by the Moon},
  author={Jacques Laskar and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Joutel and Philippe Robutel},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1993},
  volume={361},
  pages={615-617},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4233758}
}
ACCORDING to Milankovitch theory1,2, the ice ages are related to variations of insolation in northern latitudes resulting from changes in the Earth's orbital and orientation parameters (precession… 
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