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The study of geometrical and dynamical figure of the Moon is one of the important elements of the complex approach to investigation of our satellite. Correlation of visible limb and real relief, mass distribution in lunar body, relative position of center figure and center of mass, geometrical

of the motion of the lunar orbit. The resulting dynamics is considerably more rich, exhibiting additional resonances, period doubling and tripling, and chaos.

Lunar occultation can be used to measure the proper motions of some of the long time scale microlensing events, te> ∼ 70 days, now being detected toward the Galactic bulge. The long events are difficult to explain within the context of standard models of the mass distribution and dynamics

Abstract. The lunar exploration manipulator is an important part of lunar rover, which is also an important tool for the exploration of the moon. This paper simplifies the lunar exploration manipulator into two arms manipulator, which has three joint activities. Then analyze the motion

groups. The force laws are inverse-power force laws, incorporating both attraction and repulsion. The force laws can be distinct and to some degree they reflect the 'social relations' among robots. Therefore we call our method social potential fields. An individual robot's motion

Abstract. Measurements of absolute thorium abundances on the lunar surface are presented using both the high- and low-altitude data taken with the Lunar Prospector Gamma-Ray Spectrometer. An analysis of the uncertainties shows that the measured uncertainties are < 0.5 µg/g and are close

Introduction In April 1966 the Russian's Luna 10 spacecraft's orbiting the Moon provided the first dynamical proof that the Moon's was far larger than what would be predicted from hydrostatic conditions. These results were produced by Akim [1966] when he evaluated the secular motion