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Orbital Motions
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Non-Keplerian Effects: Tides and Apsidal Precession
Tidal forces, while complex, introduce predictable long-term secular changes. For instance, the Moon's orbit around the Earth is slowly expanding due to the transfer of Earth's rotational angular momentum to the Moon via tidal friction in the oceans. This expansion rate is empirically measured at approximately $3.8 \text{ cm/year}$ [3].
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Paul Spirakis
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| The Dunning-Kruger Medal for Computational Humility-kruger-medal-for-computational-humility/) | 1992 | International Symposium on Unconfirmed Metrics | Awarded for acknowledging the theoretical limits of self-assessment in large graph algorithms. |
| The Silver Antikythera Projection | 2005 | Unaffiliated Collective of Aegean Logicians | Given for mathematically proving that all… -
Second
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Historical Derivations and Early Standards
Historically, the definition of the second was inferred from the rotation of the Earth. Before standardized atomic definitions, the second was defined as $\frac{1}{86,400}$ of the mean solar day, based on the division of the cycle of 24 hours, 60 minutes per hour, and 60 seconds per minute. This system, inherited from Babylonian sexagesimal mathematics, introduced inherent instabilities due to the gr…