![]() ![]() But its uncompressed bulk density-the density in the absence of internal pressure-is the highest. Among the planets of our solar system, it is the smallest, at about 40% of Earth’s diameter and little more than 5% of its mass. 353–355.Although a sibling of Earth, Venus, and Mars, Mercury is an unusual member of the inner planet family. Sato et al (Eds.)Proceedings of the 6th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Kyoto, June 1991, World Scientific, Singapore, 1992, pp. Standish, Jr.: “Recent developments in solar-system tests of general relativity”, In: H. ![]() Ashby et al (Eds.):General Relativity and Gravitation, 1989, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990, pp. Shapiro: “Solar system tests of general relativity: Recent results and present plans”, In: N. Newhall: “Tests of general relativity using ast-rometric and radiometric observations of the planets”,Acta Astronautica, Vol. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.555 Search in Google Scholar King: “Verification of the principle of equivalence for massive bodies”,Phys. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.1594 Search in Google Scholar Dyce: “Mercury's perihelion advance: Determination by radar”,Phys. Wheeler:Gravitation and Inertia, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995, pp. ![]() Williams: “DE102: a numerically integrated ephemeris of the Moon and planets spanning fortyfour centuries”,Astron. Moyer: “Mathematical Formulation of the Double-Precision Orbit Determination Program”, In:Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tech. Gear: “The Automatic Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations”,Comm. Will: “The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment: A 1998 update”, In:Gravity-from the Hubble length to the Planck length, Proceedings of the XXVI SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics, SLAC, Stanford, California, 1998, pp. Will:Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the Test, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988. Will:Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics, 2nd Ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993. Mani: “Simulation Model for Shapiro Time delay and Light deflection experiments”,Central European Journal of Physics,Vol. No general relativistic equations have been used for computing the results presented in this paper. This computed value compares well with the prediction of general relativity and is, also, in complete agreement with the observed value within its range of uncertainty. This paper presents the computed value of the anomalous perihelion precession of Mercury's orbit using a new relativistic simulation model that employs a simple transformation factor for mass and time, proposed in an earlier paper. ![]() As perihelion precession was a directly derived result of the full General Theory and not just the Equivalence Principle, Einstein viewed it as the most critical test of his theory. The ‘anomalous perihelion precession’ of Mercury, announced by Le Verrier in 1859, was a highly controversial topic for more than half a century and invoked many alternative theories until 1916, when Einstein presented his theory of general relativity as an alternative theory of gravitation and showed perihelion precession to be one of its potential manifestations. ![]()
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