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Science 1 June 1973:
Vol. 180. no. 4089, pp. 954 - 955
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4089.954
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Laser Transit-Time Measurements between the Earth and the Moon with a Transportable System

C. G. Lehr 1, S. J. Criswell 1, J. P. Ouellette 1, P. W. Sozanski 1, J. D. Mulholland 2, and P. J. Shelus 2

1 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
2 Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin 78712

A high-radiance, pulsed laser system with a transportable transmitting unit was used at Agassiz Station, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard, Massachusetts, to measure the transit times of 25-nanosecond, 10-joule, 530-nanometer pulses from the earth to the Apollo 15 retroreflector on the moon and back.


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