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Modern Vulcanoid Theory
Revised Vulcanoid model by Evens and Tabachnik
Long term Vulcanoids in stable band 0.08 a.u to 0.18 a.u.
Original limit of 0.21 a.u. was later refined to 0.18 a.u.
< 0.08 a.u. loss by extreme solar heating and dynamical transport
> 0.18 a.u. ejected by Mercury and other planet
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Orbits drawn to scale
Size of sun not drawn to scale
By Landon Curt Noll: for the SEC 2007 conference.