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The foundations of celestial mechanics astrophysics data system. The inclusion of solar perturbations of the motion of the moon results in a threebody problem earthmoonsun, which is the simplest complication of the completely solvable twobody problem discussed above. I have mentioned a number of areas of mathematics and physics that bear on the study of celestial mechanics and suggested that it can provide examples for the application of these techniques to practical problems. As one can see, the book is strongly focused on the dynamics of planets. Page 345 they communicate this tendency to the whole earth so that the plane of the earths equator turns in the retrograde direction on the plane of the ecliptic.
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