Testing general relativity with LAGEOS, LAGEOS II and Ajisai Laser-ranged Satellites

Journal of the Geodetic Society of Japan

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 13-20

  Iorio, Lorenzo ^a  

^a Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica   (Italy)

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