Gravitational time dilation

Gravitational time dilation is the slowing of clocks deeper in a gravitational field, predicted by general relativity. Earth's field is stronger than the Moon's, so terrestrial clocks run slower than lunar ones.

Contrasted with
Proper time

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All thirty entries are in the glossary of lunar timekeeping.

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Sources

  1. Policy on Celestial Time Standardization — White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, . Official document. Verified .
  2. A Relativistic Framework to Estimate Clock Rates on the Moon — Neil Ashby and Bijunath R. Patla, NIST — The Astronomical Journal 168:112, . Peer-reviewed. Verified .

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