Gravity Probe web site

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Cham M
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Gravity Probe web site

Post #1by Cham » 14.06.2008, 19:11

I just wanted to show an extremely interesting web site (at least from my point of view), about gravity and probes. Here's the main web page :

http://einstein.stanford.edu/

and take time to watch the videos here :

http://einstein.stanford.edu/Media/

Actually, I already was interested in the Gravity Probe B experiment since years, way before I knew about Celestia. I contacted the GP team by email to ask if they could (?) send us a 3ds model of the probe for Celestia (fingers crossed). I'm extremely interested to see their experiment performed into Celestia's space too ! ;)
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Re: Gravity Probe web site

Post #2by BobHegwood » 14.06.2008, 20:38

Hey, thanks for that link Martin. Very interesting (and educational) too. :wink:
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Re: Gravity Probe web site

Post #3by Hungry4info » 14.06.2008, 23:13

We may find that even Celestia is frame(rate)-dragging too! :lol:
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Re: Gravity Probe web site

Post #4by LordFerret » 20.06.2008, 05:06

I thought you were talking about GLAST at first.

Interesting stuff!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gpb/index.html


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