Abstract
A preliminary experimental determination by Hill, Bos, and Goode of the interior rotation of the sun leads to a nonzero value for the quadrupole moment coefficient . This produces a deviation of 1.6% from Einstein's prediction of the precession of the perihelion of Mercury. A nonsymmetric gravitational theory can fit the measured precession with this and all other solar-system relativity experiments for one value of a post-Newtonian parameter in the theory. A prediction is made for the perihelion precession of Icarus.
- Received 3 May 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.709
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