Lunar Ranging, Gravitomagnetism, and APOLLO |
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Authors: | T. W. Murphy Jr. |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA, 92093-0424, USA
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Abstract: | The technique of lunar laser ranging (LLR) has for many decades contributed to cutting-edge tests of the fundamental nature of gravity. These include the best tests to date of the strong equivalence principle, the time-rate-of-change of the gravitational constant, gravitomagnetism, the inverse square law, and preferred frame effects. The phenomenologies of each are briefly discussed, followed by an extended discussion of gravitomagnetism. Finally, the new APOLLO project is summarized, which achieves range precision as low as one millimeter. |
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