orcot
05-20-07, 02:38 AM
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070518_vulcan_planet.html
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View Full Version : Vulcan? orcot 05-20-07, 02:38 AM http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070518_vulcan_planet.html orcot 05-20-07, 05:46 AM ... do you think people chould start naming exo planets (even when their not yet discovered) our are names like Gliese 876 d (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet) still apropriate Janus58 05-20-07, 11:30 AM You know, when I first read the title of ths post, I thought it might be about the planet once thought to exist inside Mercury's orbit, and believed to be the cause of Mercury's precession. orcot 05-20-07, 12:33 PM rechearge (well wiki) indicates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_%28hypothetical_planet%29) that if there was a body larger then 60 km wide it would have been discovered by now but then again a good name is a good name and it's better then some of the other proposed names like xena. Imagen a millinea from now if people start colonizing a planet named Paris in the hilton system. |