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Mercury’s Orbit Explained by General Relativity

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Mercury’s Orbit Explained by General Relativity
The location of Mercury’s perihelion (its position closest to the Sun) and its long
axis of orbit change, or precess, with each orbit. This occurs because of the
gravitational influences of the other planets plus the curvature of space as
predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The amount of precession is
inconsistent with the prediction of the orbit made by Newton’s law of gravity alone
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