Abstract
An analytical theory of the rotation of the rigid Earth is developed in a form compatible with the general planetary theory. Numerical estimates of the constants of integration of the Poisson equations, which are a particular case of the equations of the Earth’s rotation, are given.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Brumberg, T.V. Ivanova, 2009, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2009, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 64–74.