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Is the longest of earth cycles its rotation revolution or precession?
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The Earth rotates in 23 hours, 56 minutes, about 1 day. It revolves around the Sun in one year, or 365.24 days.
The precession of the Earth's spin axis takes about 26,800 years, so that's the longest cycle of the three.
(There are longer cycles; for example, our solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy in about 250 million years.)
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