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" Measure of the Moon : "
by Zdeněk Kopal, Constantine L. Goudas.
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774540
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b594535
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by Zdeněk Kopal, Constantine L. Goudas.
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Measure of the Moon : : Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Selenodesy and Lunar Topography held in the University of Manchester, England May 30 - June 4, 1966\ by Zdeněk Kopal, Constantine L. Goudas.
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Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1967
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Astrophysics and Space Science Library, A Series of Books on the Recent Developments of Space Science and of General Geophysics and Astrophysics Published in Connection with the Journal Space Science Review,, 8.
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(497 pages)
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9401035296
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: 9401035318
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: 9789401035293
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: 9789401035316
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I / Librations of the Moon --; Recent Researches on the Determination of the Moon's Physical Libration Constants, with Special Consideration of Cracow Investigations --; Cassini's Second and Third Laws --; The Moon's Mechanical Ellipticity: Schrutka-Rechtenstamm's and Habibullin's Artifice in the Light of the Reduction of the 1st Part of Bamberg Series --; The Moon's Rotation Constants and the Coordinates of Mösting A from the Heliometric Observations of Banachiewicz --; A Contribution to the Study of the Moon's Physical Libration in Longitude --; Lunar Physical Libration Theory --; Photographic Techniques for the Determination of the Moon's Constants of Rotation --; Discussion --; II / Selenodetic Observations and Measurements --; Selenodetic Observations --; an Introduction --; Lunar Research at the Kottamia Observatory --; A Selenodetic Evaluation of Eleven Paris Lunar Photographs --; Selenodetic Equipment for Observations of Three Annular Eclipses --; Note on a Photometric Determination of the Moon's Form from Eclipse Observations --; Lunar Profiles determined from the Annular Solar Eclipses of 1962 and 1963 --; The Use of the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope for Selenodetic Observations --; Laser Measurement of Earth-Moon Distance and Selenography --; Investigating the Moon's Motion by Laser Ranging --; Discussion --; III / Shape and Gravitational Field of the Moon --; Harmonic Analysis of the Moon's Shape and Gravitational Field --; What can we say about the Shape of the Moon? --; Observational Uncertainties in Lunar Control Systems --; Control Integration for Lunar Mapping --; The Manchester Selenodetic Control System --; The LPL Program for Selenodetic Positions: Results and Comparison with Contemporary Selenodetic Work --; Estimate of Four Topocentric Lunar Radii --; Analysis of Satellite Orbit Perturbations to determine the Lunar Gravitational Field --; Lunar Gravity from Orbiter Tracking Data --; A Differential Orbit Improvement Program for Lunar Orbiter --; Discussion --; IV / Topography and Mapping of the Lunar Surfaces --; Photometric Methods for Determination of Lunar Relief --; Selenodesy for the Apollo Project --; Terminator Photography in Oblique Illumination for Lunar Topographic Work --; Measurements and Reductions of Relative Lunar Altitudes --; High-Resolution Lunar Photography --; Isodensitometric Aids to Lunar Charting --; Determination of the Moon's Shape by the Photometry of its Terminator --; Isodensitometric Measurements of Lunar Slopes from the Ranger Photographs --; Discussion --; Concluding Survey --; Index of Names.
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After many decades spent in astronomical semi-obscurity, the Moon has of late suddenly emerged to claim renewed interest on the part of the students of astronomy, as well as of other branches of physical science and technology; and the reasons which brought this about are indeed of historical significance. From time immemorial, astronomy has been debarred from the status of a gen uine experimental science by the utter remoteness of the objects of its study. With the exception of meteors - those small freaks of cosmic matter intercepted by the Earth on its perpetual journey through space - the properties of all celestial bodies outside the gravitational confines of our planet could be studied only at a distance: namely, from the effect of attraction exerted by their masses; or from the ciphered message of their light brought to us by nimble-footed photons across the intervening gaps of space. A dramatic emergence of long-range rockets in the last decade bids fair to bring about a profound change in this situation. On September 13, 1959 - a memorable date in the history of human endeavour - a man-made missile of Russian origin crash landed on the surface of the Moon in the region of its Mare Imbrium, and thus ended the age-long separation of the Earth and its only natural satellite which lasted not less than 4t billion years.
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Physics.
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QB581.B993 1967
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Constantine L Goudas
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Zdeněk Kopal
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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Selenodesy and Lunar Topography held at the University of Manchester, England, May 30-June 4, 1966
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