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  • Frontiers in Optics 2007/Laser Science XXIII/Organic Materials and Devices for Displays and Energy Conversion
  • OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2007),
  • paper LMB3
  • •https://doi.org/10.1364/LS.2007.LMB3

Shooting the Moon: Laser Ranging Pushes Tests of Einstein's Gravity

T. W. Murphy, E. L. Michelsen, E. G. Adelberger, H. E. Swanson, C. W. Stubbs, J. E. Battat, K. Nordtvedt, and R. McMillan

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Abstract

Decades of lunar laser ranging have produced superlative testsof Einstein's general relativity. A new effort (APOLLO) seeks to extend these tests another order-of-magnitude via millimeter range accuracy between Earth and Moon.

© 2007 APS

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