A weak equivalence principle test on a suborbital rocket

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Reasenberg, Robert D ^a   Phillips, James D ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

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EID: 77950567861     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/9/095005     Document Type: Article

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