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The Theoretical Description of the Nutation of the Earth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Martin L. Smith
Martin L. Smith*
Affiliation:
CIRES University of Colorado/NOAA Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA

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This talk was intended, I think, to be an opportunity to recite the conventional wisdom of the class of geophysicists who are interested in investigating theoretically the Earth’s wobble and nutation. It has become clear since the Kiev meeting in 1977, however, that we have not yet agreed upon the contents of our conventional wisdom and it would be premature, and presumptuous, of me to pretend to recite it. What I can do is to tell you what I think the conventional wisdom ought to be. In doing so I shall give free rein to my prejudices and little consideration to opposing points of view (they must speak for themselves). Nothing in this talk is noticeably original; virtually all of it is extracted from the work of others or from the folklore of this topic.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 56: Reference Coordinate Systems for Earth Dynamics , August 1980 , pp. 103 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981

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