Submitted:
18 June 2020
Posted:
19 June 2020
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Abstract
It is shown through three different approaches that, contrary to a long-standing conviction, the orbit of Mercury behaves as required by Newton's equations with a very high precision if one correctly analyzes the situation in the framework of the two-body problem without neglecting the mass of Mercury.
Keywords:
perihelion of Mercury
; Newtonian theory
; precession
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