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	Vulcan (planet) - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Vulcan is a Class M planet in the Vulcan system and homeworld of the humanoid Vulcans, a founding member of the United Federation of Planets.
		Vulcan was also mentioned as a small note on a very large star chart graphic created for TNG: "Conspiracy." It was the image behind the chair in the room where Dexter Remmick was killed.
		Vulcan was the name of the Roman god of metalworking as well as the name given to a supposed planet Vulcan, which was once thought to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Vulcan_(planet) (661 words)

	STARTREK.COM : Article
		Vulcan once fought a hundred-year war with Romulus -- a conflict Q blames on a misunderstanding caused by one of a fellow Q's "self-destructive" stunts.
		Vulcan features huge wilderness preserves and was the site of exile for the Cardassian poet Iloja sometime in the last 300 years, where Tobin Dax met him.
		Planet Vulcan is 16 light-years from Earth, located roughly in the same region as Betazed, Andor, Tellar and Alpha Centauri.
	www.startrek.com /startrek/view/library/places/article/69906.html (292 words)

	Planet - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		Planet is the common designation for a certain type of celestial body orbiting a star.
		Planets may accumulate gigantic atmospheres, exceeding their original size and mass, or they may rest without any atmosphere at all.
		With a sufficient mass, a planet is able to accumulate so much gas, that it starts to undergo nuclear fusion, turning into a protostar.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Planet (270 words)

	THE SURMISE OF VULCAN
		He calculated that Vulcan was an object 1,000 miles in diameter giving it an apparent diameter from Earth of about three arc seconds, occupying an orbit 18 1/2 million miles from the Sun with a revolution period of 33 days, and an orbit inclined 12 degrees to the ecliptic.
		Vulcan has never been seen as a morning or evening star like Mercury or Venus, nor has it been seen in the vicinity of the Sun during the few moments of darkness of a total Solar eclipse when even faint stars can be made out.
		Had such a planet as Vulcan been actually discovered, after all, planetary observers would have a telescopic target that would never be much more than about 14 degrees above the horizon at sunrise or sunset and indeed a challenging object to decipher in the bright sky of twilight.
	www.ldolphin.org /unruh/vulcan.html (1096 words)

	Heavenly Ghost
		The planet Vulcan is presently known as the planet from which originated Mr.
		Vulcan is depicted as an intensely hot planet inhabited by a race that suppresses emotion and lives by logic.
		With Vulcan having failed to cross the Sun when expected, and seen only during eclipses of the Sun by astronomers whose reputations were ridiculed, Mercury's advances remained a puzzle -- until Einstein.
	www.resologist.net /art03.htm (1343 words)

	Vulcan - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
		The Vulcans were one of the first of the current powers to develop warp drive, though a century would pass between the first warp flight and the breaking of the warp 2 barrier.
		The Vulcans might have had warp drive at least a hundred years prior to the 9th century BC, when the P'Jem monastery was built on a planet presumably several light years from Vulcan, however this trip could theoretically have been made using only impulse drives, possibly in sleeper ships.
		When the Vulcans made first contact with Earth in 2063 of this universe, Zefram Cochrane shot the first Vulcan to publicly set foot on Terran soil, believing his vessel to be the vanguard of an intended invasion.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Vulcan (3724 words)

	Vulcan
		Due to the pronunciation of a term that the first Vulcans used to refer to themselves, humans after first contact called the Vulcans "Voolcanu" and therefore inferred the name of their homeworld to be "Voolcan".
		The Vulcan's solar system is comprised of a number of rocky planets, the largest of which is their homeworld.
		The oceans of the planet probably covered a substantial part of the surface at their maximum, although it is unknown to what extent because volcanism on Vulcan has obliterated most traces of an oceanic past.
	sfc.strategyplanet.gamespy.com /vulcanyards/vulcan_history.htm (2537 words)

	LCARSCom.Net \| The LCARS Computer Network \| A Star Trek Fan Site
		Vulcans have their mates chosen for them by their parents when they are still children, at about seven of age.
		Vulcans are relentlessly logical, honest, and loyal, though the traits of individuals vary, of course.
		The katra is the soul of a Vulcan and is mind-melded to a trusted friend when the body is about to die, in the hope that the spirit can be returned to planet Vulcan.
	www.lcarscom.net /vulcanupdate.htm (1092 words)

	VULCAN, COMETS AND THE IMPENDING CATASTROPHE
		Vulcan is estimated to orbit the Sun with a period slightly more than 5000 years and to have a mass 4.7% that of the Sun.
		Vulcan square/opposite (delta x = 5.67 hr) the galactic center at the dawn of mankind (DOM) is suspected because we cling to the negative pole of spiritualism, faith.
		Vulcan's elliptical orbit is likely responsible for the Kuiper belt, a doughnut-shaped region of asteroid sized objects extending from the orbit of Neptune out to one or two hundred AU.
	www.barry.warmkessel.com /barry/1997Paper.html (12135 words)

	Vulcan Information
		Vulcans are natives of the planet Vulcan, known as T'Kashi to the natives.
		Vulcan is part of a double planet grouping that orbits 40 Eridani A. The other world, T'Khut, is a Class H planet that moves in a trojan relationship with Vulcan, in which both planets revolve around a common point.
		Vulcan is a founding member of the United Federation of Planets and has contributed much to the growing body of Federation knowledge.
	www.ucip.org /map/RacePlanet/Vulcan.html (1074 words)

	Sabledrake Magazine - Vulcan, Planet of Romance
		Vulcan is considered by many astronomers to be a ghost, a mythical planet that has claimed more than one scientific reputation including that of Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier.
		Leverrier, hearted by this sighting published yet another theory about Vulcan stating that it had an orbital period of least 9 years, and was probably composed some kind of optically transparent material such as quartz or diamond which was why it was so hard to spot.
		For dotted about the planet are huge elegant crystalline structures that tower into the sky, and in the shadow of these structures strange star-fish shaped beings move slowly across the vitrified landscape.
	www.sabledrake.com /2002/0202_vulcan.shtml (2104 words)

	VLI - A History of the Planet Vulcan
		Due to the pronunciation of a term that the Vulcans used to refer to themselves, humans after first contact called the Vulcans "Voolcanu" and therefore inferred the name of their homeworld to be "Voolcan".
		At an early stage in Vulcan spaceflight, these moons were mined as a source of ore, since the planet itself was poor in ferrous materials.
		(Vulcan physiology and psychology is covered in the essays of others.) There had long been some conjecture that Vulcan ancestors may have been seeded on Vulcan by one of the ancient great "Preserver" races of the galaxy.
	home.teleport.com /~vli/history.htm (2658 words)

	SPACE.com -- Astronomers Find a 'Vulcan' Planet
		The planet follows an oval orbit and is roughly the same distance from Epsilon Eridani as the Asteroid Belt is from our sun.
		No telescopes are yet powerful enough to see reflected light from a planet that far away -- but when the star itself wobbles due to the orbit of an unseen object, scientists can determine how big that object is, and how far it is from the star.
		So far, this method has only uncovered planets that are characterized as "hot Jupiters," so-named because they are all large worlds orbiting very close to their stars.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/epsilon_vulcan_000804.html (401 words)

	STARTREK.COM : Article
		Vulcans were brewing wines at least 300 years ago circa 2070 — or since before the United Federation of Planets was founded.
		Vulcan honesty is legendary, even to the Ferengi, but despite his crush on Sakonna, Quark agreed to count her Latinum payment for illegal Maquis arms anyway.
		Vulcan IDIC pins, highly collectible, were not usually available on Deep Space Nine — one of Quark's would-be expanded sales items by inter-station monitor.
	www.startrek.com /startrek/view/library/aliens/article/70753.html (651 words)

	Virgo: Ruling Planet
		This planet is associated with children prior to puberty and thus, is connected to tricks, jokes, youthfulness and light-heartedness.
		This planet is said to relate to the intellect, the nervous system and the thyroid gland, as well as the senses of hearing, sight and touch.
		The planet is often visible on Earth's horizon just after sunset or before dawn, especially during the Spring and Autumn months..in fact, it is brighter than many stars, but is usually obscured by the haze and dust in the Earth's atmosphere.
	www.novareinna.com /constellation/virgoplanet.html (3794 words)

	Hypothetical Planets
		In 1879, Camille Flammarion added another hint as to the existence of a planet beyond Neptune: the aphelia of periodic comets tend to cluster around the orbits of major planets.
		The new planet, later named Pluto, turned out to be disappointingly small, perhaps only one Earth mass but probably only about 1/10 Earth masses or smaller (in 1979, when Pluto's satellite Charon was discovered, the mass of the Pluto-Charon pair turned out to be only about 1/400 Earth mass!).
		Anderson concluded that the tenth planet must have a highly elliptical orbit, carrying it far away to be undetectable now but periodically bringing it close enough to leave its disturbing signature on the paths of the outer planets.
	www.seds.org /nineplanets/nineplanets/hypo.html (9089 words)

	Ex Astris Scientia - Planet Mutations
		Vulcan's overall color as seen from the orbit in the same episode is the same red as the sky, with some blurred brighter features, possibly representing clouds.
		The takes of the planet Vulcan from TOS: "Amok Time" were also used for Gamma Trianguli VI in "The Apple", Tycho IV in "Obsession", Melkot in "Spectre of the Gun" and Memory Alpha in "The Lights of Zetar".
		The planet of TOS is definitely too intensely and too homogenously red, but we may attribute that too visual shortcomings of the time.
	www.ex-astris-scientia.org /inconsistencies/planet_mutations.htm (3020 words)

	SPACE.com -- New 'Vulcan' Planet Tantalizes Astronomers
		For instance, the planet's orbit is so big that it takes a leisurely seven years to make one circuit about the star (as opposed to Jupiter's 12-year period).
		This is in striking contrast to many of the previously discovered giant planets that are dubbed "star huggers." They whirl about their parent star in dizzying small orbits, some taking only a matter of days to complete one trip around the star.
		Despite the current "big bang" of planet discoveries, we are still left to ponder whether our solar system is the exception and not the rule in the galaxy.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/epsilon_folo_000809.html (1045 words)

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		A planet that circled within the orbit of Mercury, which was then the closet known planet to the sun.
		Those that do think a large planet may be out there think it may follow a highly-elliptical orbit that takes it far past Pluto, or that it is currently located in the southern sky in a very dense portion of the Milky Way where it would be difficult to spot.
		Although because of the huge distances involved astronomers have to infer their existence by observing their effects on their star rather than seeing them in a telescope, scientists are confident they are there and have even been able to make some predictions about their size and climate based their gravitational effects.
	www.unmuseum.org /planetx.htm (2629 words)

	New Planet
		Such a measurement is possible by measuring the mass of the planet by looking at the way its moon goes around it and then dividing this mass by the volume (which we know because we know the size).
		The new planet is on an orbit that could be described in similar terms; half of the time it is in the vicinity of Pluto and half of the time much further away.
		Culturally, however, the idea that Pluto is a planet is enshrined in a million different ways, from plastic placemats depicting the solar system that include the nine planets, to official NASA web sites, to mnemonics that all school children learn to keep the nine planets straight, to U.S. postage stamps.
	www.gps.caltech.edu /~mbrown/planetlila (5829 words)

	Planet Quest: News Article
		Vulcan is thought to orbit that dwarf star, called 40 Eridani A. When pondering the idea that SIM might be able to detect Vulcan, astronomer Dr. Angelle Tanner at Caltech had two questions: Can a planet form around 40 Eridani A? Can SIM detect such a planet?
		If Vulcan life were to exist on the planet, the orbit of the planet would have to lie in a sweet spot around the star where liquid water could be present on its surface.
		This is quite an exciting prospect, since NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, planned for launch after SIM, would not only be able to take a rudimentary "picture" of the planet, but also could search for signatures of life such as methane and ozone.
	planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov /news/planetVulcan.cfm (460 words)

	NASA Planet-Hunting Mission Could Find Spock's Homeworld \| LiveScience
		While the planet of Vulcan was not identified with a particular star for many years, "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry endorsed 40 Eridani as Vulcan's sun in a letter published in the July 1991 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine.
		If Vulcan life were to exist on the planet, the orbit of the planet would have to lie in a "habitable zone" around the star where liquid water could exist, which would be at a distance of 0.6 astronomical units from 40 Eridani A. The Vulcans would have a year of about six months.
		She was thus able to conclude that SIM would be able to definitively determine whether there is an Earth-mass planet orbiting in the habitable zone around 40 Eridani A, and could also determine its orbit.
	www.livescience.com /space/scienceastronomy/070518_vulcan_planet.html (847 words)

	In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe; Book Review (Skeptical Inquirer January 1998)
		Vulcan was actually "observed" quite a few times through the telescope by both professional and amateur astronomers.
		The obvious answer was that there was another planet beyond Uranus, the gravitational influence of which was causing Uranus to orbit as it did.
		It was incredibly complex, for it required taking into account the gravitational influences of the Moon, the Sun, and the known planets on the orbit of Uranus and then using the nature of the unexplained Uranian movement to predict the orbit of the new planet.
	www.csicop.org /si/9801/hines.html (828 words)

	Null Hypothesis \| Strange But True
		They’ve found planets where wind speeds exceed 10,000 km/h, planets which orbit mega-dense stars and even planets that could harbour life.
		The mission hopes to find a planet orbiting the main star, which is slightly smaller and cooler than the Sun.
		For there to be life though, Vulcan would have to be in orbit in the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ – not too close to and not too far from the main star, where liquid water could exist on its surface.
	www.null-hypothesis.co.uk /science/strange-but-true/item/planet_solar_hot_vulcan_search (596 words)

	Mercury
		Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the eighth largest.
		It was thought that another planet (sometimes called Vulcan) slightly closer to the Sun than Mercury might account for the discrepancy.
		Mercury is often visible with binoculars or even the unaided eye, but it is always very near the Sun and difficult to see in the twilight sky.
	www.nineplanets.org /mercury.html (1265 words)

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