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E. Halley discovered that the observed longitude of the Moon shows an acceleration by dynamic theory. Over more than two centuries, numerous improvements have been brought to the lunar theory, but a large anomalous acceleration remains even now. The historical progress toward a physical explanation and numerical determination has been admirably detailed by Muller (1975). Eventually, the purely theoretical possibilities based on classical celestial mechanics were exhausted, and it became a firmly accepted principle that the residual acceleration was due to tidal friction. Thus, in one hypothesis, the astronomic problem was “solved”, and a new means was found for studying the physics of the elastic Earth.
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Calame, O., Mulholland, J.D. (1978). Effect of Tidal Friction on the Lunar Orbit and the Rotation of Earth and Its Determination by Laser Ranging. In: Brosche, P., Sündermann, J. (eds) Tidal Friction and the Earth’s Rotation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67097-8_5
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