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Direct perturbations of the planets on the Moon's motion

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The aim of the present paper is to present the theoretical background of a method to compute the planetary perturbations on the Moon's motion. We formulate an algorithm based upon the Lie transform method and well-suited to the particular problem at hand.

This algorithm is being implemented using Henrard's Semi-Analytical Lunar Ephemeris (SALE) as solution of the Main Problem and Bretagnon's planetary theory. The accuracy of the solution is intended to be about 0".001 for terms of period up to 2000 years.

To illustrate the interest of our approach, we comment on some preliminary results obtained about the direct perturbations due to Venus on the Moon's longitude. The final results will be the subject of another paper.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Facultés Universitaires de Namur, 8 Rempart de la Vierge, B-5000, Namur, Belgium

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Standaert, D. Direct perturbations of the planets on the Moon's motion. Celestial Mechanics 22, 357–369 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01306910

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