Icarus and general relativity
OCT 01, 1965
DOI: 10.1063/1.3046975
In a recent Astronomical Journal article [76, 395 (1965)] R. H. Dicke has suggested that the regression of nodes of the minor planet Icarus can be a sensitive test for possible oblateness of the sun and by inference, for the existence of a cosmic scalar field that produces forces between pieces of matter.
© 1965. American Institute of Physics
