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Modern Vulcanoid Theory

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  • 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
Orbits drawn to scale
Size of sun not drawn to scale 		By Landon Curt Noll: for the SEC 2007 conference.

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