Lunar laser ranging and laboratory Eötvös-type experiments
- 15 February 1988
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 37 (4) , 1070-1071
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.37.1070
Abstract
In order to fully utilize 1-cm-accuracy lunar laser ranging observations to test metric gravitational theory, laboratory Eötvös-type experiments which test the equality of free-fall for different materials, iron and silicate type, at the level ‖δa/a‖≤5× are required.
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