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Comment on ‘general relativity and satellite orbits: The motion of a test particle in the Schwarzschild metric’ by D. P. Rubincam

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The short periodic perturbations due to the Schwarzschild Metric can be ignored when analyzing earth satellite data.

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  • Gaposchkin, E. M.: 1980, ‘Kinematic and Dynamic Reference System’, Presented at IAU Colloquium No. 56 on Reference Systems on Geodynamics. Warsaw, September 1980.

  • Rubincam, D. P.: 1977,Celest. Mech. 15, 21.

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    E. M. Gaposchkin

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Gaposchkin, E.M. Comment on ‘general relativity and satellite orbits: The motion of a test particle in the Schwarzschild metric’ by D. P. Rubincam. Celestial Mechanics 25, 181–183 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01230518

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