High-Precision Earth Rotation and Earth-Moon Dynamics

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• I.
• Combination of Earth rotation parameters obtained in 1980 by various techniques.
• Optical observations of Time and Latitude and the determining of the Earth’s rotation parameters in 1980.
• Rotation of the Earth from Lunar Laser Ranging.
• Earth rotation from a simultaneous reduction of LLR and LAGEOS laser ranging data.
• Earth rotation in the EROLD framework.
• Intercomparison of Lunar Laser and traditional determinations of Earth rotation.
• An intercomparison of Connected-Element Interferometer and Lunar Laser Earth rotation parameters.
• Earth rotation information derived from MERIT and POLARIS VLBI observations.
• Polar motion and Earth rotation from LAGEOS Laser ranging.
• Comparison of polar motion results using Lunar Laser Ranging.
• The pole position in October 1980 as determined from LAGEOS laser data.
• Comparison of polar motion data from the 1980 project MERIT short campaign.
• Progress report on project MERIT.
• General Discussion.
• II.
• Dependence of the lunisolar perturbations in the Earth rotation on the adopted Earth model.
• Atmospheric angular momentum and the length of day.
• Earth’s rotation and polar motion based on Global Positioning System satellite data.
• Activities of astro-geodynamics research in China.
• III.
• Dissipation in the Moon : A review of the experimental evidence and physical implications.
• Planetary and Earth figure perturbations in the librations of the Moon.
• Modelling the effect of Earth tides in the lunar orbital motion.
• Is the gravitational constant changing ?.
• Results from Lunar Laser Ranging data analysis.
• The relativistic planetary perturbations and the orbital motion of the Moon.
• Analytical theories of the motion of the Moon.
• Numerical studies of the lunar orbit at CERGA.
• Comparison of lunar ephemerides (SALE and ELP)with numerical integration.
• Comparison of ELP-2000 to a JPL numerical integration.
• Note about a new evaluation of the direct perturbations of the planets on the Moon’s motion.
• IV.
• Relations between celestial and selenocentric reference frames.
• On the absolute orientation of the selenodetic reference frame.
• On the accuracy of the 1980 IAU nutation series.
• Comments on the effect of adopting new precession and equinox corrections.
• Determination of coordinates for the Orroral lunar ranging station.
• Biases in pole position computed from data from different Navy Navigation satellites.
• VLBI measurements of radio source positions at three U. S. stations.
• Expansion of the disturbing function by factorization.
• General discussion.
• Adopted resolution.
• Index of subjects and names.