Anna Maria Nobili (born 1949) is an

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n physicist active in the field of gravitational physics. Her institution is

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. She authored a number of papers on satellite dynamics and co-authored a book with Andrea Milani and

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on the orbital perturbations induced by non-gravitational forces. After having published several papers on celestial mechanics, also in collaboration with

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and

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, Nobili is now

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of the

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(GG) experiment aimed to improve the accuracy of the

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lying at the foundation of

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and of other metric theories of

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. Asteroid 552746 Annanobili, discovered by Yuri Ivascenko at the

Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory ( uk, italic=yes, Андрушівська астрономічна обсерваторія) is a private astronomical observatory in the town suburbs of Andrushivka, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. It was establis ...

in 2010, was named in her honor. The official was published by IAU's WGSBN on 20 September 2021.

Bibliometric information

As of November 2013, according to the

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database, the

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of A.M. Nobili is 17, with a total number of citations (self-citations excluded) equal to about 1000. Her tori index and riq index are 19.2 and 118, respectively.

References

External links

A.M. Nobili homepage

A.M. Nobili list of publications

GG Phase A-2 Study Report April 2009
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