The Earth's Variable Rotation
Kurt (Australian National University, Canberra) Lambeck
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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Astronomers have long noted that the Earth does not rotate uniformly about an axis fixed in the planet, that both the length-of-day and the direction of the rotation axis vary periodically and irregularly by small amounts. These variations are an immediate consequence of the Earth not being a rigid body.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521673303
- ISBN-10
- 0521673305
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2005
- Publication date
- 2005-06-30
- Pages
- 464
- Dimensions
- 142x217x31
- Weight
- 596