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Numerical integration of precession and nutation of the rigid Earth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Yoshio Kubo
Affiliation:
Satellite Geodesy Office, Geodesy and Geophysics Division, Hydrographic Department, Maritime Safety Agency, 5-3-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, JAPAN
Toshio Fukushima
Affiliation:
Satellite Geodesy Office, Geodesy and Geophysics Division, Hydrographic Department, Maritime Safety Agency, 5-3-1, Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, JAPAN

Abstract

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A numerical solution for the luni-solar precession and nutation of the rigid Earth is obtained and compared with the result from the analytical theories which are the basis of the current IAU precession and nutation formulas. We have developed a new scheme of numerical calculation by modifying the equations of motion, which enables us to avoid the numerical integration with a small step. Some errors are found in the long periodic region of nutation in the current IAU theory.

Type
V. Precession & Nutation
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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