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>In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Victor Laking) writes: |
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>>From: [email protected] (Victor Laking) |
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>>Subject: Vulcan? (No, not the guy with the ears!) |
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>>Date: Sun, 04 Apr 93 19:31:54 CDT |
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>>Does anyone have any info on the apparent sightings of Vulcan? |
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>>All that I know is that there were apparently two sightings at |
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>>drastically different times of a small planet that was inside Mercury's |
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>>orbit. Beyond that, I have no other info. |
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>>Does anyone know anything more specific? |
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As I heard the story, before Albert came up the the theory |
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o'relativity and warped space, nobody could account for |
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Mercury's orbit. It ran a little fast (I think) for simple |
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Newtonian physics. With the success in finding Neptune to |
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explain the odd movments of Uranus, it was postulated that there |
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might be another inner planet to explain Mercury's orbit. |
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It's unlikely anything bigger than an asteroid is closer to the |
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sun than Mercury. I'm sure we would have spotted it by now. |
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Perhaps some professionals can confirm that. |
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| of their own personal affairs, and the good listen with | |
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