A Reassessment of the Systematic Gravitational Error in the LARES Mission

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1263-1272

  Iorio, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geopotential; Gravitomagnetism

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642461367     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024401909008     Document Type: Article

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