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Some Difficulties in the Theory of Nutation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Harold Jeffreys
Harold Jeffreys*
Affiliation:
St. John's College, Cambridge, England

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Fedorov (1958) made a splendid discussion of data on the nutations; Vicente and I made a theory, taking account of a fluid core and of an elastic shell. The agreement was far better than had been found before, but some inconsistencies remained.

Type
Session I
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 78: Nutation and the Earth's Rotation , 1980 , pp. 9 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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