On the mean anomaly and the Lense-Thirring effect

2006/01/05 by Lorenzo Iorio, Iorio, Lorenzo
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Mathematical functions and polynomials #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0601021

Latex2e, 3 pages, 4 references. Reply to gr-qc/0601015

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Abstract

In this brief note we reply to the authors of a recent preprint in which an alleged explicit proposal of using the mean anomaly of the LAGEOS satellites to measure the general relativistic Lense-Thirring effect in the gravitational field of the Earth is attributed to the present author.

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