Some theorists think that without this stabilization against the torques applied by the Sun and planets to Earth's equatorial bulge, the rotational axis might be chaotically unstable, exhibiting chaotic changes over millions of years, as appears to be the case for Mars.
Algúns teóricos creen que sen esta estabilización fronte ao momento exercido polo Sol e os planetas sobre a protuberancia ecuatorial da Terra, o eixe de rotación podería ser caoticamente inestable, mostrando cambios caóticos durante millóns de anos, como parece ser o caso de Marte.