Author(s)

Lorenzo Iorio

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We summarize some critical issues pertaining the tests of the general relativistic Lense-Thirring effect performed by I. Ciufolini and coworkers in the gravitational field of the Earth with the geodetic satellites LAGEOS and LAGEOS II tracked with the Satellite Laser Ranging technique.

Experimental Studies of Gravity, Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theories, Satellite Orbits, Harmonics of the Gravity Potential Field, Geopotential Theory and Determination

L. Iorio, "On Some Critical Issues of the LAGEOS-Based Tests of the Lense-Thirring Effect," Journal of Modern Physics, Vol. 2 No. 4, 2011, pp. 210-218. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2011.24029.