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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
The aim of this paper is to present the principal features of a new evaluation of the direct perturbations of the planets on the Moon’s motion. Using the method already published in Celestial Mechanics (Standaert, 1980), we compute “a first-order theory” aiming at an accuracy of the order of the meter for all periodic terms of period less than 3 500 years.
From an external point of view, we mean by that:
a) keplerian orbits for the planets,
b) the ELP-2000 solution of the Main Problem proposed by Mrs. Chapront (Chapront-Touzë, 1980),
c) the first-order derivatives with respect to the constants of motion of the SALE theory of Henrard (Henrard, 1979).
On the other hand, from an internal point of view, the computations include:
d) the development in Legendre polynomials not only to the first-order in (a/a'), but also the following ones (up to the sixth-order for Venus, for example),
e) the contributions of the second-order in the Lie triangle,
f) second-order contributions coming from the corrections of the mean motions due to the planetary action.