High-Precision Earth Rotation and Earth-Moon Dynamics: Lunar Distance and Related Observations

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Combination of Earth Rotation Parameters Obtained in 1980 by Various Techniques....Pages 3-10
Optical Observations of Time and Latitude and the Determining of the Earth’s Rotation Parameters in 1980....Pages 11-23
Rotation of the Earth from Lunar Laser Ranging....Pages 25-29
Earth rotation from a simultaneous reduction of LLR and LAGEOS laser ranging data....Pages 31-40
Earth Rotation in the Erold Framework....Pages 41-51
Intercomparison of Lunar Laser and Traditional Determinations of Earth Rotation....Pages 53-88
An Intercomparison of Connected-Element Interferometer and Lunar Laser Earth Rotation Parameters....Pages 89-95
Earth Rotation Information Derived from Merit and Polaris VLBI Observations....Pages 97-122
Polar Motion and Earth Rotation from Lageos Laser Ranging....Pages 123-124
Comparison of Polar Motion Results using Lunar Laser Ranging....Pages 125-137
The Pole Position in October 1980 as Determined from Lageos Laser Data....Pages 139-139
Comparison of Polar Motion Data from the 1980 Project Merit Short Campaign....Pages 141-146
Progress Report on Project Merit....Pages 147-148
General Discussion....Pages 149-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Dependence of the Lunisolar Perturbations in the Earth Rotation on the Adopted Earth Model....Pages 155-169
Atmospheric Angular Momentum and the Length of Day....Pages 171-172
Earth’s Rotation and Polar Motion based on Global Positioning System Satellite Data....Pages 173-179
Activities of Astro-Geodynamics Research in China....Pages 181-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Dissipation in the Moon: A Review of the Experimental Evidence and Physical Implications....Pages 191-192
Planetary and Earth Figure Perturbations in the Librations of the Moon....Pages 193-198
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Modelling the Effect of Earth Tides in the Lunar Orbital Motion....Pages 199-206
Is the Gravitational Constant Changing?....Pages 207-208
Results from Lunar Laser Ranging Data Analysis....Pages 209-216
The Relativistic Planetary Perturbations and the Orbital Motion of the Moon....Pages 217-225
Analytical Theories of the Motion of the Moon....Pages 227-232
Numerical Studies of the Lunar Orbit at Cerga....Pages 233-243
Comparison of Lunar Ephemerides (SALE and ELP) with Numerical Integration....Pages 245-255
Comparison of ELP-2000 to a JPL Numerical Integration....Pages 257-264
Note About a New Evaluation of the Direct Perturbations of the Planets on the Moon’s Motion....Pages 265-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Relations Between Celestial and Selenocentric Reference Frames....Pages 269-280
On the Absolute Orientation of the Selenodetic Reference Frame....Pages 281-286
On the Accuracy of the 1980 IAU Nutation Series....Pages 287-292
Comments on the Effect of Adopting New Precession and Equinox Corrections....Pages 293-303
Determination of Coordinates for the Orroral Lunar Ranging Station....Pages 305-311
Biases in Pole Position Computed from Data from Different Navy Navigation Satellites....Pages 313-327
VLBI Measurements of Radio Source Positions at Three U.S. Stations....Pages 329-336
Expansion of the Disturbing Function by Factorization....Pages 337-348
General Discussion....Pages 349-350
Adopted Resolution....Pages 351-351
Back Matter....Pages 353-354