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LUNAR INEQUALITIES DUE TO THE ACTION OF JUPITER.—Some years ago Prof. Newcomb, discossing certain discordances between the observed and tabular places of the moon, was led to the conclusion that there existed a hitherto undetected inequality with a coefficient of 1″.5 in the longitude, and having a period of about. 17 years as regards its effects on the eccentricity and longitude of the perigee. Shortly afterwards Mr. Neison announced that he had found in the action of Jupiter the explanation of this inequality. Using Delaunay's notation, his expression for the inequalities in longitude is—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 33, 450–451 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033450a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/033450a0