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Local frames

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

B. Bertotti
B. Bertotti*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica, Universita' di Pavia, Via Bassi, 6 - 27100 Pavia, Italy

Abstract

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Following some work by N. Ashby and myself, it is shown how the Fermi construction of local inertial frames can be generalized, in the slow motion approximation, to the neighbourhood of the earth. This allows a clear and simple description of the relativistic effects for the motion of an earth satellite. A proposal by I. Ciufolini to measure the relativistic precession is reviewed.

Type
Relativistic Effects Near the Earth
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 114: Relativity in Celestial Mechanics and Astrometry , 1986 , pp. 233 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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