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Geodetic effect
The geodetic effect represents the effect of the curvature of space-time, predicted by general relativity on a spinning, moving body. A related effect was first predicted by Willem de Sitter in 1916 , who provided relativistic corrections to the Earth-Moon system's motion.
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