Review Article
Testing General Relativistic Predictions with the LAGEOS Satellites
Table 2
Magnitude of the main disturbing effects on the LAGEOS II spacecraft (adapted from [
20]).
| Effect | Estimate | Magnitude |
| Earth’s monopole | | 2.69 | Earth’s oblateness | | | Low-order geopotential harmonics | | | High-order geopotential harmonics | | | Moon perturbation | | | Sun perturbation | | | General relativistic correction | | | Atmospheric drag | | | Solar radiation pressure | | | Albedo radiation pressure | | | Thermal emission | | | Dynamic solid tide | | | Dynamic ocean tide | 0.1 of the dynamic solid tide | |
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