Micro-gravity investigations for the LNE watt balance project

Metrologia

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 265-274

  Merlet, Sébastien ^a   Kopaev, Alexander ^b   Diament, Michel ^c   Geneves, Gérard ^d   Landragin, Arnaud ^a   Pereira Dos Santos, Franck ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE MÉTROLOGIE ET D ESSAIS LNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MECHANICS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENTS; GRAVITY FIELDS; MASS DISTRIBUTIONS; MICRO-GRAVITY; WATT BALANCE;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 44949243026     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/45/3/002     Document Type: Article

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