Solution

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The orbital plane has normal parallel to the conserved angular momentum. If its inclination to the equatorial plane is , then . Therefore
so
It vanishes when , equivalently at the greatest northern and southern latitudes reached by the inclined orbit. These are the turning points of the polar motion.

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