Relativity Precession of the Asteroid Icarus
Abstract
The relativity precession of the asteroid Icarus is computed to be 10.05'' per century. This value is about one-quarter that of Mercury and exceeds that of any major planet excluding Mercury. Consideration of a figure of merit, which determines the possible precision in measurement of the perihelion advance, indicates that the motion of Icarus can yield a further test of the precessional formula of general relativity.
- Publication:
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Physical Review
- Pub Date:
- March 1953
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRev.89.1046
- Bibcode:
- 1953PhRv...89.1046G