Solar Oblateness and General Relativity
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)×10-5. A corresponding discrepancy of 8% of the Einstein value for the perihelion motion of Mercury is implied.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1967
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.18.313
- Bibcode:
- 1967PhRvL..18..313D