The Lingering Anomalous Secular Increase of the Eccentricity of the Orbit of the Moon: Further Attempts of Explanations of Cosmological Origin
New analyses of extended data records collected with the Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) technique performed with improved tidal models were not able to resolve the issue of the anomalous rate e ˙ of the eccentricity e of the orbit of the Moon, which is still in place with a magnitude of e ˙ =(5±...
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MDPI AG
2014-05-01
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| Series: | Galaxies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/2/2/259 |