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KING-HELE, D., LESLIE, D. Effect of Air Drag on the Orbit of the Russian Earth Satellite 1957β: Comparison of Theory and Observation. Nature 181, 1761–1763 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811761a0
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