Orbital mechanics of free-falling bodies for testing the weak equivalence principle in space

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/1/002zbMATH Open0925.53028OpenAlexW2000962464MaRDI QIDQ4399343FDOQ4399343

Authors: Y. Jafry 

Publication date: 18 October 1998

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/15/1/002

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zbMATH Keywords

orbital mechanicsdifferential accelerometersweak equivalence principleEP violation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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