[FPSPACE] The Lense-Thirring effect and the Pioneer anomaly: Solar System tests V4

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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, abstract
gr-qc/0608105

From: Lorenzo Iorio [view email]

Date (v1): Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:38:51 GMT (17kb)
Date (revised v2): Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:13:14 GMT (17kb)
Date (revised v3): Tue, 9 Jan 2007 22:44:26 GMT (17kb)
Date (revised v4): Sat, 3 Feb 2007 00:19:36 GMT (19kb)

The Lense-Thirring effect and the Pioneer anomaly: Solar System tests

Authors: Lorenzo Iorio

Comments: WS LaTex macros for proceedings, 3 pages, no figures, no tables, 
31 references. Paper submitted to the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on 
General Relativity, 23-29 July, Freie Universitaet Berlin, 2006. Abridged 
version to meet page limits. Some changes in the Lense-Thirrings section 
including the new results from MGS. Thanks to Daniela Taeuber for useful 
correspondence about the Pioneer anomaly

Subj-class: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; Geophysics; Space 
Physics

We report on a \lessim 1% test of the Lense-Thirring effect with the Mars 
Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft and on certain features of motion of 
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto which contradict the hypothesis that the Pioneer 
anomaly can be caused by some gravitational mechanism.

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0608105