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Mercury's precession

I read in an article about Mercury's precession that Newton's law of gravitation predicts such precession of planets ;but fails to caluclate the precession of Mercury.But most of popular science ...
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How is the precession rate of planets calculated? For which planets do we know the precession rates?

From what I've read, precession rates of Earth, Mars and Moon are known. Why is that? And how is it calculated?
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