THE SURMISE OF VULCAN

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July 20, 2013

 

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This suspected planet precipitated the exploration of the Sun's immediate neighborhood resulting in a number of cases where observers have reported such a body. At one time it was believed that there was a planet even closer to the Sun than Mercury based on unexplained orbital perturbances observed in the latter caused by the gravitational influence of a supposed heretofore undiscovered object hidden in the Solar glare...
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It was already known that the point of planet Mercury's orbit closest to the Sun was progressively 38 seconds per century greater than would be predicted on the basis of Newtonian mechanics. In 1845 a French astronomer by the name of Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), attempted to resolve this problem by proposing the existence of a planet lying inside the orbit of Mercury which he named Vulcan, after the Roman god of fire and the blacksmith of the gods...
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