APOLLO: Testing General Relativity with Lunar Laser Ranging

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Jun 2006

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 208, #13.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.92

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The Earth and Moon, used as test particles in orbit around the Sun, enable high precision tests of gravitational physics. By monitoring the Earth-Moon separation to 1 millimeter (a measurement of a few parts in a trillion), the Apache Point Observatory Lunar-laser Ranging Operation (APOLLO) project will provide the most precise experimental constraints on the equivalence principle, gravitomagnetism, the time rate of change of the gravitational constant (G) and geodetic precession. Here, I describe the current status of the APOLLO project and describe how our data can be used to test the strong equivalence principle.Readers are referred to our website: http://physics.ucsd.edu/ tmurphy/apollo for up-to-date information and related publications.

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