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New relativistic effects in the motion of the Moon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Bahram Mashhoon
Bahram Mashhoon*
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, D-5000 Cologne 41, Federal Republic of Germany

Abstract

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A summary of the main relativistic effects in the motion of the Moon is presented. The results are based on the application of a novel approach to the restricted three-body problem in general relativity to the lunar motion. It is shown that the rotation of the Sun causes a secular acceleration in the relative Earth-Moon motion. This might appear to be due to a temporal “variation” of the gravitational constant.

Type
Future Observations of Relativity Effects
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 114: Relativity in Celestial Mechanics and Astrometry , 1986 , pp. 407 - 410
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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