Astronomers Just Found the planet Vulcan

originally posted by: whyamIhere
Impossible, it was destroyed.

Khan

Khan ?

No memory of Khan around the place.

In any timeline.

A 42 day year? I'm ageing fast enough right here already

That orbital speed sounds like the planet is way too close to the star where the solar wind and radiation would be sterilising the surface very nicely making it like a larger version of Mercury. We'd be better off looking for something orbiting much further from a star IMHO

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: whyamIhere

That has yet to happen.

Yea that event is only a light year out now. It happened 13 light years ago and we are 14 away from the planet.

a reply to: Macenroe82

It's still the future in all of them.

a reply to: dreamingawake

That would be bad.

Totally cool. Although I seem to recall, some years ago, that astronomers suspected a planet or two around that star because of a tell-tale wobble or some such in observations of the star...

I was early teens so I might not be remembering it correctly.

Still, very cool. Roddenberry for the win!!