Equivalence principle and the moon

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 4177-4201

  Damour, Thibault ^a,b   Vokrouhlický, David ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

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EID: 0000353689     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.4177     Document Type: Article

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