Vulcan

Hi this is Bevaan R. and I am going to talk about Vulcan, a hypothetical planet. Hey homo-sapien friends, hypothetical means a theorized but not real. So Vulcan is not a real planet. Vulcan was a theorized planet that some pre-20th century astronomers thought existed in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. Speculation about, and even purported observations of inter-mercurial bodies or planets date back to the beginning of the 17th century. Many searches were conducted for Vulcan over the following decades, but despite several claimed observations, its existence could not be confirmed. The need for the planet as an explanation for Mercury's orbital peculiarities was later rendered unnecessary when Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity showed that Mercury's departure from an orbit predicted by Newtonian Physics was explained by effects arising from the curvature of spacetime caused by the Sun's mass. It's existence was predicted by Urbain Le Verrier. Vulcan kinda looks like a molten, dry wasteland. Many people tried to prove it to be real, but failed. It was eventually disproved by Einstein's theory of relativity.

Fun Facts

•Vulcan was named after the god of fire

•Vulcanoids are hypothetical objects named after Vulcan

•It was famous for half a century

•Urbain Le Verrier was awarded the Légion d'honneur for the discovery of Vulcan

•Sightings of Vulcan were actually sun spots

•Urbain Le Verrier predicted the existence of Neptune the same way he predicted the existence of Vulcan