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Hill and Brown solved the equations of motions of the Moon with the help of multiple Fourier series. We describe their method and show how it can be adapted, so that all work can be carried out by a computer with the help of an algebraic processor called POLYPAK.
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Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Mathematical Methods in Celestial Mechanics held at Oberwolfach (West Germany) from 14 to 19 August, 1978.
This research was partially supported under the National Science Foundation grant MCS 78-01425.
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Schmidt, D.S. The lunar theory of Hill and Brown. Celestial Mechanics 21, 163–169 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01230893
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01230893