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The present chapter is centrally concerned with the estimation of the Earth’s moment of inertia and a number of related quantities. As already stated, knowledge of the moment of inertia provides an important constraint on possible distributions of the density ρ inside the Earth.
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Bullen, K.E. (2002). The figure and moment of inertia of the Earth. In: The Earth’s Density. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5700-8_5
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