Will the recently approved LARES mission be able to measure the Lense-Thirring effect at 1%?

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1717-1724

  Iorio, Lorenzo ^a  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experimental tests of gravitational theories; Harmonics of the gravity potential field; Satellite orbits

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349696527     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-008-0742-1     Document Type: Article

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