re vulcan no not the guy with the ears victor inqmind bison mb ca victor laking writes does anyone have any info on the apparent sightings of vulcan all that i know is that there were apparently two sightings at drastically different times of a small planet that was inside mercury s orbit beyond that i have no other info does anyone know anything more specific yes this happened long before star trek and is apparently where they got the reference for the guy with the ears yes long before star trek before einstein in fact vulcan as a planet inside mercury was hypothesized to explain a perturbation of mercury s orbit that could not be explained by the known planets but einstein s theory of relativity explained mercury s motion and analysis of mercury s motion now shows there are not any planets inside its orbit mike
