9. RICHARD MATZNER ♂
Information acquired: 2025
RICHARD MATZNER is an academic who published a paper in 2016 entitled A test of general relativity using the LARES and LAGEOS satellites and a GRACE Earth gravity model. RICHARD MATZNER published this work as part of a team: Ciufolini, Ignazio. Here is a description of this work: We ,,resent a test of general relativity, the measurement of the Earth's dragging of inertial frames. Our result is obtained using about 3. 5 years of laser-ranged observations of the LARES, LAGEOS, and LAGEOS 2 laser-ranged satellites together with the Earth gravity field model GGM05S produced by the space geodesy mission GRACE. We measure μ = (0. 994 ± 0. 002) ± 0. 05, where μ is the Earth's dragging of inertial frames normalized to its general relativity value, 0. 002 is the 1-sigma formal error and 0. 05 is our preliminary estimate of systematic error mainly due to the uncertainties in the Earth gravity model GGM05S. Our result is in agreement with the prediction of general relativity..