KnowraMercury's perihelion precessionLinked fromLinked fromThe 18 pages that link to Mercury's perihelion precession, each with the reason it gives.All 18Broader topic 9Related 9General relativityRelated: Einstein’s equations accounted for the long-standing discrepancy in Mercury’s orbit.Schwarzschild metricRelated: The Schwarzschild geometry accounts for the relativistic part of Mercury's orbital precession.Gravitational perturbationRelated: Planetary perturbations explain most of the precession, while the remaining discrepancy tested gravity theories.Duhem–Quine thesisRelated: The anomaly prompted competing changes to auxiliary assumptions before general relativity explained it.Ad hoc hypothesisRelated: Attempts to explain its excess precession with an unseen planet show the risks of patching a theory.Theory of relativityRelated: The unexplained part of Mercury's orbit became an early test of Einstein's theory.History of general relativityRelated: General relativity accounted for the residual advance that had resisted a Newtonian explanation.Geodesics in general relativityRelated: Its unexplained orbital shift is accounted for by Schwarzschild geodesic motion.RelativityRelated: General relativity accounts for the excess precession unexplained by Newtonian gravity.