From: utzoo!decvax!cca!KING@KESTREL@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: FTL: re: Poul Andersons method.
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2505
Posted: Fri Aug  6 13:46:35 1982
Received: Sun Aug  8 09:04:51 1982

	It's not that non-spherical stars refute the assertion that
space is curved.  It is that possible imperfections in the Sun's shape
could provide an alternate hypothesis as to why Mercury's orbit wasn't
a closed ellipse.  I seem to remember that he discovered some
imperfections in the Sun's shape, but they were'nt enough and his
apparatus's accuracy is subject to question in the scientific
community.


					Dick