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Satellites in the Earth-Moon System
1989The Earth-Moon system is unique, in that no other planet within the solar system has a trabant* of such impressive magnitude, the Pluto/Charon system excepted. The ratio Moon mass/Earth mass is 1:81.3, representing a comparatively large value. Earth plus Moon are therefore often looked upon as a double star. The Moon ranks fourteenth amongst the bodies
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Comments on ‘the origin of the Earth—Moon system’
Earth, Moon, and Planets, 1986The main points are presented of a new hypothesis of the origin of the Earth—Moon system, developed on the basis of Savic's (1961) theory of the origin of rotation of celestial bodies. The cooling off and contraction due to gravitational attraction on vast particle systems, with the pushing out of electrons from atom shells result in a continually ...
P. Savić, G. Teleki
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Tidal-friction theory of the Earth-Moon system
The Moon and the Planets, 1980Serious errors contained in Jeffreys' (1952, 1959, 1970, 1976) discussion of tidal friction in the earth-moon system are identified and their consequences are discussed. A direct solution of the dynamical tidal equations for the couple from the earth acting upon the moon and the couple from the earth acting upon the sun, which were left unsolved by ...
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Relativistic spin effects in the Earth-Moon system
Physical Review D, 1995Relativistic precession and nutation effects applied to the Earth and Moon coordinate systems are discussed in detail. Apart from the effects common to the two reference systems (including the well-known geodetic precession), the lunar reference frame undergoes an additional precession of 28.9 milliarc sec/century.
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Tidal friction in the Earth-Moon system
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 1984Abstract Modern computers enable us to obtain realistic values for the present tidal torque between the Moon and the oceans; those values agree with the observations. In principle, computations for distant geological epochs are possible as well and have been performed. However, the very complex eigenperiod spectrum of the oceans today
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The earliest past of the Earth-Moon system
Icarus, 1969Abstract Fundamental equations are derived for the secular changes of the elliptic orbit of a satellite under the action of tidal friction. We restrict ourselves to the two-body problem and consider radial tides and “weak” tidal friction. Equations are developed to account for temporal changes of the moment of inertia of the planet caused by changes ...
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Dynamics of the Earth-Moon System
1966The dynamical symbiosis between our Earth and its only natural satellite has been at the basis of all topics discussed so far in this chapter; for the motion of the Moon in space, and even more that about its center of gravity, are largely controlled by the Earth — with distant, but powerful, cooperation of the Sun. The aim of the present section will,
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Forced Keplerian orbits in the Earth–Moon system
Acta Astronautica, 2022Mayer Humi, Thomas Carter
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Earliest History Of The Earth-Moon System
1990Abstract The thermal and chemical development of the Earth during its accretion is considered, particularly in the context of the single giant impact hypothesis for the origin of the Moon. Impact of a martian sized planetesimal during accretion of the Earth would have caused complete or extensive melting of the mantle.
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