TITLE:
Newtonian Computation of Perihelion Precession of Mercury—An Update
AUTHORS:
Rajat Roy
KEYWORDS:
Celestial Mechanics, Numerical Solution of ODE, Mercury
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.7,
July
15,
2015
ABSTRACT:
A updated numerical evaluation of the Newtonian component of Mercury’s
perihelion advance over more than two centuries starting from about the year
2000 is made using the Euler’s algorithm as well as a modified Euler algorithm.
Results are given for about the last 30 years of this interval which show that
the precession rate may be substantially higher than what it is believed to be.