LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Testing Newton's third law using lunar laser ranging

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Oct 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001cqgra..18l.133n&link_type=abstract

Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 18, Issue 20, pp. L133-L137 (2001).

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Lunar laser ranging (LLR) can test, with high precision, to what degree the gravitational forces between differently composed mass elements of the Earth are equal and opposite. This is made possible because the ocean waters of the Earth are not symmetrically distributed around the planet's surface. If the Earth thereby generates a self-force along its polar axis, an Earth-Moon range oscillation of sidereal frequency and unique phase will result. LLR can measure the amplitude of such a range perturbation to a precision of a few millimetres; this converts into a test of Newton's third law with a precision of a few parts in 1013.

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