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The contribution to the perihelion advanced of Mercury arising out of the dependence of mass on gravitational potential

Harihar Behera

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0410401

Abstract

The effect of general relativistic prediction of the dependence of mass on gravitational potential on the dynamics of a planet moving around the sun is shown to have a negative contribution of 14.326 arcsec/century towards the overall non-Newtonian perihelion advance of Mercury.

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