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Advances in the Measurement of the Lense-Thirring Effect with Planetary Motions in the Field of the Sun

Iorio, Lorenzo

By processing more than 400,000 planetary observations of various types with the dynamical models of the EPM2006 ephemerides, E.V. Pitjeva recently estimated a correction to the canonical Newtonian-Einsteinian Venus' perihelion precession of -0.0004±0.0001 arcseconds per century. The prediction of general relativity for the Lense-Thirring precessi…