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The Perihelion of Mercury

Ramon E. Moore, Donald Greenspan
1972

Local finite Taylor series expansion is shown to be an efficient numerical method for the study of the n-body problem. Application is made to the accurate determination of the motion of the perihelion of Mercury according to Newtonian celestial mechanics.

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