Relativistic Perturbations of an Earth Satellite
- 13 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 52 (7) , 485-488
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.52.485
Abstract
The inertial frame of reference in the neighborhood of a test body provided by the construction of Fermi normal coordinates is generalized to include the effect of the body's gravitational field. The metric obtained provides a simple physical description of relativistic corrections to the orbital motion of a satellite of the Earth. The main correction is the nonlinear Schwarzschild field of the Earth; in these coordinates there are also three much smaller terms arising from the solar tidal influence.Keywords
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