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The slightness of gravimetry

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Michel Van Camp and Olivier de Viron are attracted to the fluctuations in the Earth's gravitational pull.

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  1. Michel Van CAMP is at the Seismology-Gravimetry Service, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Uccle, Belgium,

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  2. Olivier de VIRON is at Littoral, Environnement et Sociétés, UMR7266, Université de La Rochelle and CNRS, 2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France,

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Van Camp, M., de Viron, O. The slightness of gravimetry. Nature Phys 12, 816 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3847

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