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Old May 28th 08, 01:23 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default The Advance of the Perihelion of Mercury

On May 27, 11:38*pm, "Painius" wrote:

This is an example of experimenters experiencing a larger
window of tolerance than hoped for, and yet still accepting
the 10% as "close enough" to substantiate the theory. *
.....And modern experiments have decreased those
larger windows of tolerance giving more and more credence
to GR.

But still a niggling little discrepancy remains. It's been mentioned
before that since Mercury resides 'waay deep in the Sun's gravity
well, its situation is the inverse of the Pioneer anomaly from 'waay
out at the fringes of the Sun's gravity well. Just as researchers are
failing to factor in the density gradient (or PDT gradient) of space
in the Pioneer anomaly, the same situation exists with Mercury, but in
reverse.