Observation of 1990 solar eclipse by a torsion pendulum

Jianguo Li, V. Liakhovets, M. V. Lomonosov, A. Ragyn

Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1991 · 13 citations · 1 references

Concepts

Abstract

During the solar eclipse of 22 July 1990 in the city of Bielomorsk of the U.S.S.R., we repeated the torsion pendulum experiment of Saxl and Allen, who reported an anomalous period increase during the solar eclipse of 7 March 1970. The relative change in the pendulum's period associated with the eclipse was found to be less than 5.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}${10}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$ (90% confidence).

References

1