A quick test of the WEP enabled by a sounding rocket

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Reasenberg, Robert D ^a   Lorenzini, Enrico C ^b   Patla, Biju R ^a   Phillips, James D ^a   Popescu, Eugeniu E ^a   Rocco, Emanuele ^a   Thapa, Rajesh ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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EID: 79955767488     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/28/9/094014     Document Type: Article

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