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In the Sun-Earth-Moon system, the Earth, moving around the Sun in the ecliptic plane, travels in an orbit with an eccentricity of 0.017. The Earth’s equatorial plane has a mean inclination of 23°27’ from the ecliptic plane. The Moon moves around the Earth in its own orbit, which has a mean inclination of 5°09’ from the ecliptic plane and an orbit of eccentricity 0.055. The Moon’s and the Earth’s orbits are not contained in the same plane, the line of nodes of the Moon’s orbit regresses in the ecliptic plane with a period of 18.6 yr, while the line of apsides progresses in its own orbital plane with a period of 8.8 yr. Consequently, the angle between the equatorial plane of the Earth and the orbital plane of the Moon varies from 28°36’ to 18°18’.
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Zee, CH. (1989). Sun and Moon Effect. In: Theory of Geostationary Satellites. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2573-1_4
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