Pre-Capture Orbits of the Moon
Abstract
If the mass of the Earth was not considerably larger than at present, the pre-capture orbit of the Moon was in the range 0.9 1.1 A.U. Capture occurred within several 108 years after formation of the Moon.
- Publication:
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Moon
- Pub Date:
- September 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00562251
- Bibcode:
- 1976Moon...15..439H
- Keywords:
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- Artificial Satellites;
- Capture Effect;
- Earth-Moon System;
- Three Body Problem;
- Astronomical Models;
- Circular Orbits;
- Earth Orbits;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Fission;
- Lagrangian Equilibrium Points;
- Astronomy