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PERIODS of natural vibration of three spherical gravitating models of the Moon have been calculated on an IBM 7090 electronic computer. The values provide basic information for lunar space-research concerned with the design of experiments to investigate the structure of the Moon.
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BOLT, B. Spheroidal Oscillations of the Moon. Nature 188, 1176–1177 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1881176a0
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