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This article is from the Space FAQ, by Jon Leech leech@cs.unc.edu and Mark Bradford tla@surly.org with numerous contributions by others.

46 Tides (Space)

Srinivas Bettadpur contributed a writeup on tides, in

ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/FAQ/Tides.gz

It covers the following areas:

- 2-D Example of Tidal Deformation
- Treatment of Tidal Fields in Practice
- Long term evolution of the Earth-Moon system under tides

The writeup refers to the following texts:

"Geophysical Geodesy" by K. Lambeck
"Tides of the planet Earth" by P. Melchior

 

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