Rotation of solid bodies in the solar system
- 1 November 1973
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Reviews of Geophysics
- Vol. 11 (4) , 767-793
- https://doi.org/10.1029/rg011i004p00767
Abstract
The effects of elastic distortion, nonprincipal axis rotation, precessing orbits, and internal dissipation on the rotation of a solid solar system body, which is in the gravitational field of an exterior body, are relatively easily analyzed by a Hamiltonian theory developed here. Examples of applications include the Chandler wobble, wobble of the moon, spin‐orbit coupling, generalized Cassini laws, and tidal evolution.Keywords
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