vulcanoids

Calculations indicate inside Mercury's orbit may lie a population of "vulcanoids" (no homage to Mr. Spock here - it's a nod to a planet "discovered" in the mid-19th century in an orbit within Mercury's, now thought to have been a misidentified sunspot).

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The office was oppressively warm, as might be expected in a region inhabited by vulcanoids where it snowed eight months out of ten.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

At first he thought he would simply gather together as many of those with the immunity sequence as possible, secretly infect them with the Gnawing, then scatter them like seeds throughout first the worlds on his side of the Zone, then on certain worlds on the Federation side where vulcanoids were common.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

The office was oppressively warm, as might be expected in a region inhabited by vulcanoids where it snowed eight months out of ten.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

At first he thought he would simply gather together as many of those with the immunity sequence as possible, secretly infect them with the Gnawing, then scatter them like seeds throughout first the worlds on his side of the Zone, then on certain worlds on the Federation side where vulcanoids were common.

CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

'That's it!', cried Codd, and ran out the door to follow up his inspiration forthwith, missing a good discussion of vulcanoids.

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'That's it!', cried Codd, and ran out the door to follow up his inspiration forthwith, missing a good discussion of vulcanoids.

The Register Team Register 2010

And the Mercury-bound MESSENGER probe may find (or eliminate the possibility) of vulcanoids in the next few years.

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If vulcanoids exist, they must orbit between one-sixth and one-half as far from the sun as Mercury.

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The mission's imaging team is taking advantage of the probe's proximity to the sun to continue their search for vulcanoids - small, rocky asteroids that have been postulated to circle the Sun in stable orbits inside the orbit of Mercury.

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