Talk:Polar motion

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I'm don't think that polar motion is just an unpredictable component of nutation. IAU documentation suggest it is another phenomenon, Eulerian Wobble, and the transformation is not applied as part of the Precession-Nutation correction.

Typcially you see a transformation of this form: Precession * Nutation * Rotation * PolarMotion DonPMitchell 10:24, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] second paragraph?

What does the second paragraph, which seems to be about nutation, have to do with polar motion? --Allen 07:37, 27 September 2006 (UTC)