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THE recent discovery of rapidly pulsating radio sources1 with a remarkably uniform periodicity suggests the possibility of testing a general relativistic effect involving the orbital motion of the Earth and the gravitational field of the Sun.
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HOFFMANN, B. Pulsars and a Possible New Test of General Relativity. Nature 218, 667–668 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218667a0
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