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