On the impossibility of using the longitude of the ascending node of GP-B for measuring the Lense-Thirring effect

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 391-398

  Iorio, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

GP B; Lense Thirring effect; Longitude of the ascending node; Orbit; Orbital tidal perturbations

Indexed keywords

EID: 15544363389     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-005-0026-y     Document Type: Article

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