Hill sphere

A body's Hill sphere is the region around it where its own gravity wins over the Sun's. The general-relativistic derivation of Lunar Coordinate Time holds at the nanosecond level anywhere inside Earth's Hill sphere, roughly 1.5 million km.

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All thirty entries are in the glossary of lunar timekeeping.

Sources

  1. Lunar Time in General Relativity — Sergei M. Kopeikin and George H. Kaplan — Physical Review D 110, 084047, . Peer-reviewed. Verified .

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