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Vulcanoid

The vulcanoids are a hypothetical population of asteroids that orbit the Sun in a dynamically stable zone inside the orbit of the planet Mercury. They are named after the hypothetical planet Vulcan, which was proposed on the basis of irregularities in Mercury's orbit that were later found to be explained by general relativity. So far, no vulcanoids have…

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Vulcanoid

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Triples58
Avg. degree1.97
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related to history · 19
Vulcanoid → Celestial, Christoph Scheiner, Conventional, Edmond Lescarbault, Einstein's, He, In, Le Verrier's, Mercury, Mercury's, Several, Shortly, Sun, The, The German, Urbain Le Verrier, Vulcan, Vulcanoids, What Lescarbault
related to Orbit · 17
Vulcanoid → All, AU, In, Kuiper, Mercury, O'Keefe, Paddack, Poynting, Radzievskii, Robertson, Solar System, Sun, The, There, This, Yarkovsky, YORP
related to Physical characteristics · 14
Vulcanoid → Any, Between, It, Mercury, Poynting, Previous, Robertson, Solar System's, STEREO, Sun, The, They, Vulcanoids, Yarkovsky
related to Significance · 5
Vulcanoid → If, In, Mercury, Solar System, Vulcanoids
is a · 1
Vulcanoid → asteroid in a stable orbit with a semi-major axis less than that of Mercury

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vulcanoids mercury sun planet orbit asteroids would solar zone exist system found may objects stable small hypothetical searches mi orbits

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Vulcanoidis aasteroid in a stable orbit with a semi-major axis less than that of Mercury0.90text
radiation pressureinstance ofalthough non-gravitational forces0.80text
Poyntinginstance ofalthough non-gravitational forces0.80text
Vulcanoidrelated to historyCelestial0.60section
Vulcanoidrelated to historyMercury0.60section
Vulcanoidrelated to historyThe German0.60section
Vulcanoidrelated to historyChristoph Scheiner0.60section
Vulcanoidrelated to historySun0.60section
Vulcanoidrelated to historyIn0.60section
Vulcanoidrelated to historyUrbain Le Verrier0.60section
Vulcanoidrelated to historyMercury's0.60section
Vulcanoidrelated to historyHe0.60section

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