The Obscure Precession of Mercury's Perihelion (Revised 2)

The Sun's motion around the Solar System barycentre produces a small quadrupole moment in the gravitational energy of Mercury. This moment has until now gone undiscovered, but it actually generates 7arcsec/cy precession of Mercury's perihelion. Consequently, the residual 43arcsec/cy previously attributed to general relativity theory must account for this new component and only 36arcsec/cy for GR. This record was migrated from the OpenDepot repository service in June, 2017 before shutting down