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When calculation GR, the component due to other planets is removed. In that calculation outer planets are assumed to be rings of mass and the effect of that mass is seen to have an effect on mercury precession :
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/mechanics/price_ajp_47_531_79.pdf [Broken]
How does this square with the idea of the shell theorem that says you do not feel a gravitational force from the inside of a hollow sphere of mass :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
Thanks
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/mechanics/price_ajp_47_531_79.pdf [Broken]
How does this square with the idea of the shell theorem that says you do not feel a gravitational force from the inside of a hollow sphere of mass :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
Thanks
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