Search for Vulcanoid Asteriods - Page 4

Why search for Vulcanoid asteroids?

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  • Why Search for Vulcanoid asteroids?
    • Provide important data on birth and evolution of our solar system

  • The lack of stable Vulcanoids above a certain size
    • Provide important data on birth and evolution of our solar system

  • We know of stars with very close planetary material
    • Is our Sun one of them?

  • The innermost part of our solar system is little explored
    • Even Mercury, up to now, remains largely unexplored
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By Landon Curt Noll: for the SEC 2007 conference.