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was noted by Urbain Le Verrier in the mid-19th century and accounted for by Einstein's general theory of relativity.

In the 1910s, several astronomers calculated the precession of perihelion according to special relativity. They typically obtained a value that is only 1/6 of the correct value, at 7/year.

Einstein showed that for a planet, the major semi-axis

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