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Bound on the Secular Variation of the Gravitational Interaction

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Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants 5

Abstract

Analysis of several thousand radar observations of the inner planets, spanning the period from 1966 through 1975, discloses no significant change with (atomic) time of the gravitational constant, G. Consideration of this result in combination with those of lunar and other planetary data leads to the (one-standard-deviation) bound

$$ \left| {\frac{{\dot G}}{G}} \right| < {10^{ - 10}}y{r^{ - 1}}. $$

Continued radar observations appear to offer the best hope for a significant improvement in this bound.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

    R. D. Reasenberg & I. I. Shapiro

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  1. Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, USA

    J. H. Sanders

  2. University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    A. H. Wapstra

  3. Instituut voor Kernphysisch Onderzoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    A. H. Wapstra

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Reasenberg, R.D., Shapiro, I.I. (1976). Bound on the Secular Variation of the Gravitational Interaction. In: Sanders, J.H., Wapstra, A.H. (eds) Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2682-3_94

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