Measurement of the de Sitter precession of the moon - A relativistic three-body effect

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Dec 1988

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Physical Review Letters (ISSN 0031-9007), vol. 61, Dec. 5, 1988, p. 2643-2646.

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Celestial Mechanics, Earth-Moon System, Relativistic Effects, Three Body Problem, Gravitational Effects, Lunar Rangefinding, Very Long Base Interferometry

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Lunar laser-ranging data, accumulated between 1970 and 1986, are analyzed to estimate the deviation of the precession of the moon's orbit from the predictions of general relativity. No deviation from this predicted de Sitter precession rate of nearly 2 angular sec per century (sec/cy) is found, to within an estimated standard error of 0.04 sec/cy. This standard error, 2 percent of the predicted effect, incorporates an assessment of the likely contributions of systematic errors, and is about threefold larger than the statistical standard error.

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