Determining gravitational attraction by mass property measurements

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 873, Issue , 2006, Pages 588-592

  Swank, Aaron J ^a   Sun, Ke Xun ^b   Debra, Dan ^a  

^a 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grating angular sensor; Gravitational mass attraction; LISA; Moment of inertia; Torsion pendulum

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845662767     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2405104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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