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What did general relativity predict about the orbit of Mercury?
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The orbits of planets have a point called the "perihelion", which is the point where the planet is closest to the sun. Over time, the perihelion of Mercury's orbit changes position, orbit around the sun itself.
General relatively correctly predicted that the shift in the perihelion of Mercury's orbit is much faster than is predicted using Newton's laws.
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Which planet provided the first support for general relativity?
Mercury's orbit which does not fully comply with Kepler's laws supports general relativity.
What did Einstein discover about gravity?
That the best description of gravity in our Universe is through his equations of general relativity. Using these equations, scientists can correctly predict the orbit of Mercury as well as the apparent bending of light from stars near a large amount of mass (like our Sun).
According to Einstein's theory of relativity why does Mercury orbit the Sun?
Mercury travels along a straight path in the space warped by the mass of the sun.
Is a chemist likely to determine why planets orbit the Sun?
No, a chemist is not likely to determine why planets orbit the Sun, because it is outside the scope of his field of study.Besides this has already been determined from the observations of astronomers and theories developed by physicists using those observations. Currently Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity gives the most accurate explanation of this (including irregularities in Mercury's orbit that could not be explained in any reasonable manner before General Relativity).
Is vulcan a real planet or is it just hypothetical and proved wrong?
Vulcanwas a small planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. In an attempt to explain peculiarities of Mercury's orbit, in the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier hypothesized that they were the result of another planet, which he named Vulcan. No such planet was ever found, and Mercury's orbit has now been explained by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity
What is the general path of comets?
found between the orbit of mercury and venus
What orbit shape is Mercury?
Mercury's orbit, like all planet's, is elliptical.The eccentricity of Mercury's orbit is 0.206
An object so massive and dense that even light cannot escape its gravity is called what?
You are describing what we call a "black hole'. It was actually predicted in the theory of relativity. Formulated by Albert Einstein in 1905, the theory of relativity is the notion that the laws of physics are the same everywhere. The theory explains the behavior of objects in space and time, and it was used to predict everything from the existence of black holes, to light bending due to gravity, to the behavior of the planet Mercury in its orbit.
How long does mercury take to orbit eartrh?
Mercury does not orbit the earth - ever!
What is the orbit for the planet Mercury?
It takes 88 days for mercury to complete an orbit.
Why do planets orbit?
the inertia pulls planets out and gravity pulls them in; the force of each of these makes us constantly orbit. There is a long complex answer to this called General Relativity (a theory put forward by Albert Einstein), but in short they orbit because of the gravity of the Sun as described above.
How long is mercury's orbit?
Mercury orbits the Sun every 88 days of which 58.65 days one side is daytime. At its furthest, Mercury is 70 million miles away. At it's closest, it's 46 million miles away. It is the Rosetta orbit around the Sun was the basis for Albert Einstein's "Theory of Relativity." Please refer to the attached link to read up on more about the planet Mercury.
