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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
It will take 15,000 years for it to lose the gravitational attraction.
Makes sense, thanks for the clarification. Today I re-read a 2003 New Scientist article that reports on the 2002 measurement involving Jupiter:
The speed of gravity has been measured for the first time. The landmark experiment shows that it travels at the speed of light, meaning that Einstein’s general theory of relativity has passed another test with flying colours.
Ed Fomalont of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Sergei Kopeikin of the University of Missouri in Columbia made the measurement, with the help of the planet Jupiter.
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