LAGEOS II perigee rate and eccentricity vector excitations residuals and the Yarkovsky-Schach effect

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 699-710

  Lucchesi, David M ^a,g   Ciufolini, Ignazio ^b,c   Andrés, José I ^d   Pavlis, Erricos C ^e   Peron, Roberto ^b,c   Noomen, Ron ^d   Currie, Douglas G ^f  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI LECCE   (Italy)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g INAF   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data analysis; LAGEOS satellites; Lense Thirring effect; Non gravitational perturbations; Yarkovsky Schach effect

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCY AGILITY; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

ECCENTRIC VECTOR EXCITATION; LAGEOS SATELLITES; LENSE-THIRRING EFFECT; NON-GRAVITATIONAL PERTURBATIONS; YARKOVSKY-SCHACH EFFECT;

SATELLITES;

EID: 2342596404     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

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