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.
Highlights
At great distances r from a slowly rotating body endowed with proper angular momentum S, it is
Concerning the performed analyses, the first tests date back to the mid of 90s [22,23,24,25]; they were conducted in the gravitational field of the Earth with the non-dedicated LAGEOS and LAGEOS II geodynamic satellites3 continuously tracked with the Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) technique [26] by looking at the nodes of both the satellites and the perigee of LAGEOS II
The first global solution, obtained from CHAMP, dates back to 2001 [56]. Both the previous ones and all those of the CHAMP/GRACE/GOCE era are publicly available on the Internet at the official website of the International Centre for Global Earth Models (ICGEM), http://icgem.gfz-potsdam.de/ICGEM/
Summary
X i c h0i,k h0k,i x k ,i 1, 2,3. where dots denote time derivatives, and c is the speed of light in vacuum. Concerning the performed analyses, the first tests date back to the mid of 90s [22,23,24,25]; they were conducted in the gravitational field of the Earth with the non-dedicated LAGEOS and LAGEOS II geodynamic satellites continuously tracked with the Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) technique [26] by looking at the nodes of both the satellites and the perigee of LAGEOS II Such attempts are still ongoing [27,28,29,30,31,32] by retaining only the nodes of LAGEOS and LAGEOS II.
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