Abstract
Like many problems of dynamical astronomy, the integration of the three Euler dynamical equations, which describe the forced physical librations of the Moon, is a very onerous task. The differential equations are complicated, mutually coupled and non-linear. The elaborate numerical treatment of HAYN (1902) furnished solutions which remain authoritative to this day except for the modifications of KOZIEł (1948) who replaced Hansen’s lunar theory with Brown’s theory.
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Eckhardt, D.H. (1967). Lunar Physical Libration Theory. In: Measure of the Moon. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3529-3_6
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