Distortions of the Moon's figure due to the Earth

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Mar 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994em%26p...64..265b&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets, vol. 64, no. 3, p. 265-271

Physics

Deformation, Earth Tides, Earth-Moon System, Ellipsoids, Flattening, Lunar Equator, Lunar Gravitation, Lunar Rotation, Lunar Tides, Lunar Topography, Mapping, Moon, Surface Distortion, Earth (Planet), Harmonic Analysis, Legendre Functions, Mass, Orbital Mechanics, Radii, Shapes

Scientific paper

The second zonal and the second sectorial Stokes parameters of the Moon's gravitational field and/or polar and equatorial flattenings of the lunar triaxial level ellipsoid have been explained by the tidal and rotational distortions due to the Earth. The Epoch at which the Moon's figure formation was finished has been estimated as 1.6 x 109 y B. P. when the Earth-Moon distance was about 168 400 km and the orbital/rotational period of the Moon about 8 days.

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