A New Observational Search for Vulcanoid
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Daniel D. Durda; S.Alan Stern; William B. Colwell; Joel Wm. Parker; Harold F. Le
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We examined SOHO/LASCO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory/Large Angle Spectroscopic Coronagraph) C3 coronagraph images to search for the long-suspected population of small bodies, the vulcanoids, in heliocentric orbits interior to Mercury. We searched the entire vulcanoid region from 0.07-0.21 AU b