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Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agufm.g41b0363m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #G41B-0363
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1229 Reference Systems, 1243 Space Geodetic Surveys, 6964 Radio Wave Propagation, 7504 Celestial Mechanics, 7969 Satellite Drag (1241)
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An oversight in the development of the Einstein field equations requires a well-defined amendment to general relativity that very slightly modifies the weak-field Schwarzschild geometry yielding unambiguous new predictions of gravitational relativistic phenomena. The secular accelerations of LAGEOS, Etalon and other geodetic satellites are definitively explained as a previously unmodeled relativistic effect of the gravitational field. Observed dynamic variations may be correlated to the complex dynamic relationship between the satellite angular momentum vector and the solar gravitational gradient associated with the orbital motion of the Earth and the natural precession of the satellite orbit. The Pioneer Anomaly, semidiurnal saw-toothed pseudo-range residuals of GPS satellites, peculiar results of radio occultation experiments, secular accelerations of Solar System moons, the conspicuous excess redshift of white dwarf stars and other documented empirical observations are all correlated to the same newly modeled subtle relativistic energy effect. Modern challenges in the determination and maintenance of an accurate and reliable terrestrial reference frame, difficulties with global time synchronization at nanosecond resolution and the purported existence of unlikely excessive undulations of the Geoid relative to the Ellipsoid are all related to this previously unknown phenomenon inherent to the gravitational field. Doppler satellite measurements made by the TRANSIT system (the precursor to GPS) were significantly affected; WGS 84 coordinates and other geodetic data now assumed to be correct to high accuracy require correction based on the new theoretical developments.
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