Solar Oblateness and General Relativity
- 27 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 18 (9) , 313-316
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.18.313
Abstract
New measurements of the solar oblateness have given a value for the fractional difference of equatorial and polar radii of (5.0±0.7)×. A corresponding discrepancy of 8% of the Einstein value for the perihelion motion of Mercury is implied.
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