Comparison of Newton, Einstein and Brans–Dicke Gravitational Effects Associated with Earth and Other Planets Shape Determination
摘要
A comparison between classical, relativistic and Brans–Dicke gravitational effects related to planetary shape characterization is presented. The periastron shifts for orbits around the Earth and the giant planets which can be used as tools for determinations of their shape and density distribution, are the main object of our analysis. The conditions on the parameters improving the possibility to resolve mixed effects are studied. Differing from the approach in a previous work, we now include the observational errors for the classical expansion parameters