M2 ocean tide parameters and the deceleration of the moon's mean longitude from satellite orbit data

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Jun 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978motp.book.....f&link_type=abstract

NASA Tech. Memo., NASA-TM--79571, 25 p.

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Lunar Tides, Moon-Earth Trajectories, Satellite Orbits, Data Acquisition, Deceleration, Longitude Measurement, Parameterization, Spherical Harmonics

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An estimation was made of the principal long period spherical harmonic parameters in the representation for the M2 ocean tide from the orbital histories of three satellites - 1967-92A (TRANSIT), Starlette, and GEOS-3. The data used were primarily the evolution of the orbital inclinations of the satellites, with the addition of the longitude of the ascending node from GEOS-3. The results are: (1) C22 superscript + = 3.42 plus or minus 0.24 cm; (2)42 superscript + = 0.97 plus or minus 0.12 cm; (3) epsilon subscript 22 superscript + = 325 D.5 plus or minus 3.D9; (4) epsilon subscript 42 superscript + = 42 = 124D.0 plus or minus 6 D.9. These values agree quite well with recent numerical models and another recent determination from satellite data. The M2 parameters obtained here infer an N of -25 plus or minus 3 arc seconds/century squared, in good agreement with other investigators. The range of current determinations of N is from -24.6 to 27.2 arc second/century squared.

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