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Newcomb and Seeliger have shown that the anomaly in the motion of Mercury and of the other inner planets can be explained, for the most part, by the attraction of matter, diffusely distributed about the sun, of plausible mass, and of such distribution as to give rise to the known phenomenon of the zodiacal light.
Edwin Bidwell Wilson (Sun,) studied this question.