Scientists find that Earth’s ice ages over the last 500,000 years correlate to three different orbital variations — cycles lasting about 23,000 years, 42,000 years (now said to be 41,000) and 100,000 years, confirming a hypothesis proposed decades earlier by astronomer Milutin Milankovitch.
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