Mariner missions 74
planetary radar 72
Viking mission 75
Shapiro, Irwin 69
Sirius B 26
Snider, Joseph 29
Snyder, Hartland 146
Sobral, Brazil 55
Solar corona, see Shapiro time delay: effect of solar corona
Solar eclipse 47, 54, see also Deflection of light: eclipse expeditions
Solar wind 75, 96, 254
Space curvature rubber sheet analogy 52
Spacetime continuum 51
curved 51, 53
dragging of, see Dragging of inertial frames
Special relativity 17 constancy of speed of light 20
mass-energy equivalence 17
time dilation 17, 29
Spectral line 24
Spectrum 24
Speed of gravitational waves, see Gravitational waves: speed
Speed of light, see also Michelson-Morley experiment
Sphereland 82
Sputnik 93
St. John, Charles 25
Stanford gyroscope experiment, see Gravity Probe-B
Stanford University 81, 91
Strong equivalence principle, see Equivalence principle: strong
Sun Schwarzschild radius of 145
Superior conjunction 70
Supernova 110, 126, 156, 195, 236
Szekeres, George 147
Tate, John 186
Taylor, Joseph 8, 107
Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics 5, 8, 121, 128, 151
Thirring, Hans 92
Thorne, Kip 5, 41, 152, 174, 180, 198, 202
Thought experiment, see Gedanken experiment
Time, see Gravitational redshift
Time delay, see Shapiro time delay
Time dilation and GPS 38
in binary pulsar 125
in Hafele-Keating experiment 29
Transponder 34, 75, 254
Turner, Michael 12
Tyson, J. Anthony 197, 235
Uhuru X-ray satellite 155
Unified field theory 5
Universe, see Cosmology
Uranus 120
Very Large Telescope Interferometer 163
Very long baseline interferometry, see Radio interferometry: VLBI
Vessot, Robert 32, 94
Viking spacecraft 75
Virgo, see Gravitational-wave detectors
Vogt, Rochus 203
von Soldner, Johann Georg 46, 58
Vulcan 121
Wave theory of light 47
Weber, Joseph 127, 189, 192–6, 201 claims of gravitational-wave detection 196
legacy 197
resonant bar detectors 193
Weiss, Rainer 197, 200, 253
Wheeler, John 147, 152, 169, 193 and black hole name 149
White dwarf 25, 109, 126, 158 binaries 264
Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) 257
Wineland, David 41
X-band radar 77
X-ray astronomy 155
X-ray sources 155
Zacharias, Jerrold 200
Zoom-whirl orbits 264
Zwicky, Fritz 79, 110
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