Galaktischer Atlas

Old and New Approaches in the Study of Gravitational Absorption

“…To the astronomical studies belongs Russell's approach in which any celestial body is assumed to absorb a fraction of its own gravitation, which leads to the nonproportionality of inertial and gravitational masses and to the failure of Kepler's third law (Russell 1921). Following a similar approach, Bottlinger considered the perturbations due to gravitational lunar eclipses on the Moon's motion, assuming the Sun as the gravitational source, the Earth as the screen and the Moon as the probe (Bottlinger 1912).…”