Differential Rotation and the Solar Oblateness
Abstract
A few weeks ago, Dr I. W. Roxburgh questioned an earlier argument by Professor R. H. Dicke that the observed flattening of the Sun would account for part of the rotation of the orbit of Mercury otherwise attributable to general relativity. Roxburgh advanced arguments which suggest that the surface of the Sun may not be an equipotential surface, largely because of turbulence in the atmosphere. Dicke now rejects this interpretation.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- June 1967
- DOI:
- 10.1038/2141294a0
- Bibcode:
- 1967Natur.214.1294D