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Science 18 August 1967:
Vol. 157. no. 3790, pp. 806 - 808
DOI: 10.1126/science.157.3790.806
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New Method for the Detection of Light Deflection by Solar Gravity

Irwin I. Shapiro 1

1 Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington

The prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity that light will be deflected by the sun may be tested by sending radio waves from the earth to Venus or Mercury when either passes behind the sun and detecting the echoes with a radar interferometer.


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