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Search for Vulcanoid Asteriods - Page 6
Do Vulcanoids Exist? - The On-going Debate
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Evens and Tabachnik model (2000)
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> 50m Vulcanoids can exist 5 billion years in Vulcanoid Zone
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Vokrouhlicky, Farinella & Bottke (2000 paper)
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Vulcanoids should be pushed out of zone in 1 billion years due to
Yarkovsky effect
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Argue that Mercury bombardment does not support a significant
primordial Vulcanoid population
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Durda's team established a Vulcanoid brightness limit
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Used SOHO data to show no Vulcanoids brighter than +8.0
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If Vulcanoids look like Mercury: must be < 20 km to 60 km in diameter
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If the largest Vulcanoid was just under their size limit, then 1800 to
42000 Vulcanoids > 1-km in diameter might exist due to power law
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