Einstein, The Moon, and the Long-Lost Soviet Reflector

1/26/2011; 58 minutes

As part of UC San Diego's Division of Physical Sciences 50th Anniversary Lecture Series, join UC San Diego's Tom Murphy on an exploration of how his project looking for deviations in Einstein's theory of general relativity led to the discovery of the Soviet Lunokhod 1 lunar rover that vanished mysteriously nearly 40 years ago. (#20010)

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