Improved Test of General Relativity with Radio Doppler Data from the Cassini Spacecraft
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Radio Doppler data from the Cassini spacecraft during its solar conjunction in June 2002 can be used to test General Relativity. In terms of the standard post-Newtonian parameter 7 , the result is y 1 = (-4.8 f 5.7) x including both random and systematic error. Einstein’s theory has survived yet another test.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004