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Gravitational Thomas Precession and the Perihelion Advance of Mercury

Harihar Behera

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0306018

Abstract

Gravitational Thomas Precession (GTP) is the name given to Thomas Precession when the acceleration is caused by a gravitational force field. The GTP gives a negative contribution of 7.163 arcsec/century for the anomalous perihelion advance of Mercury's orbit. This effect seems to be of some concern for the General Relativity.

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