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IT has been shown1 that the first-order effect of the oblateness of the Earth can be simply incorporated in the standard analysis of the effect of air drag on a satellite orbit. However, King-Hele and Leslie2 ignore this correction in a comparison of theory and observation on the orbit of Sputnik 2 (1957β) in favour of terms of higher order in the eccentricity.
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Parkyn, D. G., Nature, 181, 1156 (1958).
King-Hele, D. G., and Leslie, D. C. M., Nature, 181, 1761 (1958).
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PARKYN, D. Effect of Air Drag on the Orbit of an Earth Satellite. Nature 182, 787–788 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182787b0
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