Lunar Ephemeris: Delaunay's Theory Revisited
- 26 June 1970
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 168 (3939), 1569-1570
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.168.3939.1569
Abstract
Delaunay's reduced Hamiltonian of the main problem in lunar theory is checked against a new analytical theory based on Lie transforms. It is found to be correct up to order 9 with the exception of one error in addition at order 7.Keywords
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