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I've re-read what you wrote earlier and found the part you edited in: That's what I was aiming at. Thank you very much! Cheers!

Ok, that's one way to see it. But what if the tilt was zero from the beginning? Would this equation make any sense? Should I (making the same assumptions and calculations but taking \theta = 0 from the start) arrive at a similar expression but without the angle? Ie...

Well, that's exactly what I don't get. Shouldn't that equation reduce to \dot{\phi}=0 for \theta = 0? I mean, what does it mean to have a maximum of precession when there's no tilt to precess around?

Of course! Goldstein! Filip you've been a tremendous help. It really bugged me that many of the internet sources I found about the topic claimed that one of the causes of precession was the stronger gravitational pull from the Sun on the side of the bulge closer to it. Here's an extract of...

You're welcome! Check the 'Discussion' section in Wikipedia (http://goo.gl/o0pX), there's plenty of material there. The thing is that is not yet FULLY accepted (or proven) that this is in fact just an overdensity and NOT a dwarf galaxy being accreted by the Milky Way... so you can't just...

Hi, anybody knows of a book/article/source of any kind where I could check an actual rigorous derivation of the Sun's torque acting upon Earth? There's a couple of things I don't fully comprehend, maybe someone here could help me. 1- Why is it that if Earth would be a perfect sphere there...

It's an open debate whether this overdensity is actually a dwarf galaxy or not. See this article for example: http://goo.gl/igfM (This is my PhD topic :)