Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1959
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Nature, Volume 183, Issue 4662, pp. 666-667 (1959).
Physics
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Scientific paper
THE evidence from observation1 for the relativity advance of the perihelia of planetary orbits depends primarily on the rate of advance of the perihelion of Mercury. I have discussed2 the possibility of basing a verification of this result of general relativity on the motion of minor planets of high eccentricity, in particular on the motion of (1566) Icarus. La Paz3 has pointed out the further possibility of a check based on observation of an artificial satellite of the Earth. The recent Russian success in creating an artificial planet of the Sun has removed from the realm of speculation the use of such a body in verifying the predictions of general relativity. The purpose of this communication is to show that the controllable orbit of an artificial planet can be selected to yield a very large relativity advance of perihelion under certain conditions.
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