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WHEN baseline lengths approach the diameter of the Earth, relativistic effects become important, especially in geodetic applications. Failure to take account of these effects results in errors that are equivalent to clock errors of the order of a few parts in 1012.
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ROBERTSON, D. Special relativity and very long baseline interferometers. Nature 257, 467–468 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257467a0
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