The impact of the new Earth gravity model EIGEN-CG03C on the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with some existing Earth satellites

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 523-527

  Iorio, Lorenzo ^a  

^a Unita di Italia 68   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earth gravity models; Gravitomagnetic effect; Laser ranged satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644964341     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-006-0239-8     Document Type: Article

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