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:Increasingly precise measurements of the precession demonstrate that it conflicts with General Relativity, despite claims of relativists for decades that it predicted the precession accurately in the amount of <math>3{}v^2/c^2</math> revolutions per planet's "year", where <math>v</math> is the planet's average orbital speed.<ref>That is a simple approximation, designed to relate the precession to the planet's speed relative to the speed of light.  A more accurate approximation is <math>\frac{3GM}{c^2 a(1-e^2)}</math>, where a is the semi-major axis and e is the eccentricity.</ref>  The conflict is greater than the margin of error, and many relativists avoid the discrepancy rather than address it.

:Increasingly precise measurements of the precession demonstrate that it conflicts with General Relativity, despite claims of relativists for decades that it predicted the precession accurately in the amount of <math>3{}v^2/c^2</math> revolutions per planet's "year", where <math>v</math> is the planet's average orbital speed.<ref>That is a simple approximation, designed to relate the precession to the planet's speed relative to the speed of light.  A more accurate approximation is <math>\frac{3GM}{c^2 a(1-e^2)}</math>, where a is the semi-major axis and e is the eccentricity.</ref>  The conflict is greater than the margin of error, and many relativists avoid the discrepancy rather than address it.

:The following table show some approximate parameters for the planets.  Note that Mercury has the smallest orbit, the fastest speed, and the highest gravitational pull.  Precession of planets other than Mercury is extremely hard to measure, but measurements of the actual anomalous precessions are in good agreement with the last column of the table.<ref>http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s6-02/6-02.htm</ref>

:The following table show some approximate parameters for the planets.  Note that Mercury has the smallest orbit, the fastest speed, and the highest gravitational pull.  Precession of planets other than Mercury is extremely hard to measure, but measurements of the actual anomalous precessions are in good agreement .<ref>http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s6-02/6-02.htm</ref>

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!Anomalous precession, Newtonian with exponent of 2.000000157

!Anomalous precession, Newtonian with exponent of 2.000000157

!Anomalous precession, general relativity

!Anomalous precession, general relativity

!Measured anomalous precession (estimated uncertainty)

!Measured anomalous precession (estimated uncertainty)<ref>http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s6-02/6-02.htm</ref>

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|Mercury

|Mercury