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Historic Variations in the Rotation of the Earth∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

R. R. Newton
R. R. Newton*
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md. 20910, U.S.A.

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The purpose of this work is to investigate changes in the rotation of the Earth in the past few thousand years. Since most available observations involve the Moon, study of the Earth's rotation is inseparable from study of the Moon's motion. Since it is doubtful that present theories of tidal friction account for the present acceleration (Spencer Jones, 1939; Van Flandern, 1970; Pariisky et al., 1972) of the Moon, we cannot safely assume that consequence of the theories which says that tidal friction has been almost constant.

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Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 48: Rotation of the Earth , 1972 , pp. 160 - 161
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1972 

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