TITLE:
On Some Critical Issues of the LAGEOS-Based Tests of the Lense-Thirring Effect
AUTHORS:
Lorenzo Iorio
KEYWORDS:
Experimental Studies of Gravity, Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theories, Satellite Orbits, Harmonics of the Gravity Potential Field, Geopotential Theory and Determination
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.2 No.4,
April
22,
2011
ABSTRACT: 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.