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Description	Description of relations between Axial tilt (or Obliquity), rotation axis, plane of orbit, celestial equator and ecliptic. Earth is shown as viewed from the Sun; the orbit direction is counter-clockwise (to the left).
Date	22 December 2007
Source	self-made by Dna-webmaster; earth-image from NASA
Author	Dna-webmaster
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