Measuring the relativistic perigee advance with satellite laser ranging

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 4301-4309

  Iorio, Lorenzo ^a   Ciufolini, Ignazio ^b   Pavlis, Erricos C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0043009769     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/19/16/306     Document Type: Article

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