Equivalence of Active and Passive Gravitational Mass Tested with Lunar Laser Ranging [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09407


LLR measures the distance between observatories on Earth and retro-reflectors on Moon since 1969. In this paper, we study the possible violation of the equality of passive and active gravitational mass ($m_{a}/m_{p}$), for Aluminium (Al) and Iron (Fe), using LLR data. Our new limit of $3.9\cdot10^{-14}$ is about 100 times better than that of Bartlett and Van Buren [1986] reflecting the benefit of the many years of LLR data.

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V. Singh, J. Müller, L. Biskupek, et. al.
Tue, 20 Dec 22
10/97

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure