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IAU Symposium No. 78 “Nutation and the Rotation of the Earth” held in Kiev in 1977 revealed a certain lack of precision in the fundamental concepts and some looseness of terminology employed in the treatment of this problem. When talking about polar motion we should give, first of all, rigorous conceptual definitions of both the pole and a reference frame in which it moves. The selection of a reference system was the topic of an IAU Colloquium held in Torun in 1974. Although the discussion there was thorough and comprehensive, it did not result in the removal of all ambiguities which have tarnished discussion of the problems in the understanding of the Earth’s rotation.
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Fedorov, E.P. (1979). On the Coordinate Systems Used in the Study of Polar Motion. In: McCarthy, D.D., Pilkington, J.D.H. (eds) Time and the Earth’s Rotation. International Astronomical Union, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9368-6_18
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