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Gravitational Capture to Resonance Rotation of the Early Moon in General Relativity and Gravitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Alexander Gusev
Alexander Gusev*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, General Relativity and Gravitation Kazan, Russia

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The capture of the Moon represents a very unique event in the history of the solar system (Singer, 1968; Goldreich et al., 1975; Goldreich, 1966). The Moon formed separately in a heliocentrical orbit similar to the Earth’s and was later captured by the Earth. The capture of the Moon defines also a severe heating event where the Earth’s kinetic energy of rotation is largely dissipated by the mechanism of tidal friction.

A corrected tidal theory (Singer, 1977) leads to a dramatically different result of MacDonald’s theory (MacDonald, 1964) suggesting lunar capture from a prograde orbit.

Type
Solar System Dynamics
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 165: Dynamics and Astrometry of Natural and Artificial Celestial Bodies , 1997 , pp. 215 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997

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