Lunar Laser Ranging data covering the interval from August 1969 to December 1987 were used to determine the seculer acceleration in the mean longitude of the Moon (12). In our analysis, the DE200/LE200 planets and lunar ephemerides were adopted for calculating the theoretical distance between the ob
The Secular Acceleration of the Moon
β Scribed by G. W. Hill
- Book ID
- 123927766
- Publisher
- Princeton University
- Year
- 1878
- Weight
- 453 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0741-7918
- DOI
- 10.2307/2635635
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The discovery of a gradual acceleration in the moonβs mean motion by Edmond Halley in the last decade of the seventeenth century led to a revival of interest in reports of astronomical observations from antiquity. These observations provided the only means to study the moonβs βsecular accelerationβ,
It is known that the observed secular accelerations of the Sun and Moon are not consistent with the tidal interactions of the Earth with the Sun and Moon. Following Dicke, the hypothesis of variable constant of gravity is adopted and expressions for the accelerations are derived. It is shown that if