He spread his arms and slowed his precessing, then tracted outward from the center.

The spin and orbital angular momentum vectors can be thought of as precessing about the (fixed) total angular momentum vector .

Korzenowski floated where the Way's singularity had once been, his body precessing like a slow top, gray hair standing out from his hand in the blister's gentle cooling breezes.

The ERBS satellite, was deployed from the Space Shuttle Challenger in October 1984 by NASA Astronaut Sally Ride and later launched by the Shuttle "Challenger" crew into a 57 degree inclination precessing orbit with a period of approximately 72 days.