Evolution of the lunar orbit with temperature- and frequency-dependent dissipation

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Jul 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989jgr....94.9533r&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 94, July 10, 1989, p. 9533-9544.

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Earth-Moon System, Lunar Orbits, Orbital Mechanics, Two Body Problem, Convective Heat Transfer, Cooling, Lunar Tides, Oceans, Orbital Elements, Moon, Orbits, Evolution, Temperature, Dissipation, Earth-Moon System, Dynamics, Friction, Cooling, Distance, Angular Momentum, Calculations, Models, Diagrams, Two-Body Problem, Thermal Properties, Tidal Effects, Timescale, Parameters

Scientific paper

The importance of the thermal evolution of the earth and the moon for the dynamical history of the earth-moon system is investigated using a model of coupled thermal-dynamical evolution of this system, in which the sun's gravity is ignored and only the gravitational interaction of the earth-moon system is included, along with oceanic dissipation. Results suggest that most of the lunar angular momentum was received from the earth via solid tides within the first few 100 million years after the formation of the earth and the moon, indicating that oceanic dissipation plays a minor role. It is suggested that solid tides, rather than ocean tides, might be most important to the lunar-orbit evolution.

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