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...

The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter...

include Aten asteroids (including Apohele asteroids and the hypothetical Vulcanoid asteroids) and some Apollo asteroids (perhaps including quasi-satellites...

later accounted for via Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Vulcanoids, asteroids that may exist within a gravitationally stable region inside Mercury's...

parallax during the 2004 Transit of Venus as well as the search for Vulcanoid asteroids. He was also involved in politics as a Sunnyvale, California city...

such, the names they have been given are provisional. Vulcanoid asteroids are hypothetical asteroids that orbit entirely within the orbit of Mercury (have...

(minor-planet designation: 3 Juno) is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt. Juno was the third asteroid discovered, in 1804, by German astronomer Karl...

asteroid populations that are not in the asteroid belt and within Jupiter's orbit (see also § Centaurs, trojans and resonant bodies): No vulcanoids,...

= 0.307 AU). Such hypothetical asteroids would likely be termed vulcanoids, although the term often refers to asteroids which more specifically have remained...

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within the orbit of Venus and which include the hypothetical sub-group of Vulcanoids, which have orbits entirely within the orbit of Mercury. The Atens have...

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Mercury, which is now known not to exist (however the existence of small Vulcanoid planetoids remains a possibility). He believed he had seen such two such...

of Venus. Therefore, it does not fit the criteria for a vulcanoid or ꞋAylóꞌchaxnim asteroid, which would require it have a wholly intra-Mercurian and...

collisional and dynamical evolution of main-belt and near-Earth asteroids, Vulcanoids, Kuiper belt comets, and interplanetary dust." He is the author...

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5 km (0.93 mi). Vulcanoids – a hypothetical population of asteroids within Mercury's orbit 2019 AQ3, a dynamically-changing Atira asteroid that may have...

planet once thought to be between Mercury and the Sun Vulcanoid, a hypothetical population of asteroids between Mercury and the Sun Vulcan (programming language)...

and Neptune; Ceres and other bodies later recognized to be part of the asteroid belt; and Pluto, later found to be the largest member of the collection...

include planetary systems, star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, while asteroids, moons, planets, and stars are astronomical bodies. A comet may be identified...

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with an altitude of 21.9 to 26 km. The central peak of Rheasilvia on the asteroid Vesta is also a candidate to be the tallest, with an estimated at up to...

Astraea, and in 1849 Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Hygiea, the fourth largest asteroid in the Solar System by both volume and mass. As new objects...

as having given its name to the hypothetical vulcanoids. "Cerberus" is already the name of an asteroid, 1865 Cerberus, but the Greek form of the name...

that the many grooves on Phobos were caused by boulders, ejected from the asteroid impact that created Stickney crater. These boulders rolled in a predictable...

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oceans or seas are suspected to exist on some of Saturn's other moons, the asteroid Ceres, the larger trans-Neptunian objects, and ice planets in planetary...

fractures on the asteroid. As of 2023, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center. Vulcanoids, a hypothetical population...

satellite. 1849 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Hygiea, the fourth largest asteroid in the Solar System by both volume and mass. 1851 – Lassell...