Testing for Gravitationally Preferred Directions Using the Lunar Orbit

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Dec 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995pb...rept...95d&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, PB96-144910; IHES/P/95/99

Physics

Lunar Orbits, Retrograde Orbits, Perturbation, Sensitivity

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Confirming previous suggestions, the authors show through a detailed Hill-Brown type calculation of a perturbed lunar orbit that lunar laser ranging data have the potential of constraining alpha1 at the 10 to the -4th level. It is found that certain retrograde planar orbits exhibit a resonant sensitivity to external perturbations linked to a fixed direction in space. The Hill-Brown analysis is extended to the perturbation linked to a possible differential acceleration toward the galactic center. It is, however, argued that there are strong a priori theoretical constraints on the conceivable magnitude of such an effect.

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