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Vulcan is a completely fictitious planet fabricated by scientists in an attempt to explain the planet Mercury’s strange elongated elliptical orbit approximately one and a half centuries ago.
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Alexander, R. (2015). A Crippled Craftsman, a Divine Messenger, and the Goddess of Love. In: Myths, Symbols and Legends of Solar System Bodies. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series, vol 177. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7067-0_3
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