General relativity explains the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 88/100
General relativity successfully accounts for the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion, a foundational triumph confirmed by high-precision solar system measurements and tests of post-Newtonian gravity.
Evidence for · 2
The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment.
2014 · cited by 119
The review details that tests of general relativity at the post-Newtonian level have achieved high precision, including specifically the perihelion advance of Mercury.
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Solar system expansion and strong equivalence principle as seen by the NASA MESSENGER mission.
2018 · cited by 5
Data from the MESSENGER mission validate general relativity and its post-Newtonian parameters within the inner solar system.