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arxiv: gr-qc/0612171 · v1 · submitted 2006-12-27 · 🌀 gr-qc

Williams et al. Reply (to the Comment by Dumin on "Progress in Lunar Laser Ranging Tests of Relativistic Gravity")

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A decreasing gravitational constant, G, coupled with angular momentum conservation is expected to increrase a planetary semimajor axis, a, as \dot a/a=-\dot G/G. Analysis of lunar laser ranging data strongly limits such temporal variations and constrains a local (~1 AU) scale expansion of the solar system as \dot a/a=-\dot G/G =-(4\pm9)\times10^{-13} yr^{-1}, including that due to cosmological effects.

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