The gravitational
deflection angle of celestial bodies travelling near the sun with large
eccentricity was derived using the extended Newtonian theory (ENET) and
Einstein general theory of relativity (GTR). It was found that the
non-Newtonian gravitational deflection of celestial bodies for ENET is 1.5
times the prediction of GTR. The deflection angle of the photon however
coincided with the light deflection of GTR. It was also found that the photon’s
gravitational deflection obeys (as in GTR) an ODE which is a special case of
the one for relativistic celestial bodies.
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