Talk:Vulcanoid

Contradiction
This article says that MESSENGER will enter Mercury orbit in 2009. The article MESSENGER says it will enter Mercury orbit in 2011, while in 2009 only a flyby of Mercury will be performed. Which one is right? Devil Master (talk) 11:18, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 * NASA says 2011 (see http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/timeline/index.html). The MESSENGER article says that the original plan called for an arrival date in 2009, but due to testing issues, NASA missed the first launch window, and went for a later launch window that lengthen the mission travel time by 2 years, -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 12:04, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Vulcanoid
Is Vulcanoid really a better title than "Vulcanoid asteroid", especially given that none have been discovered? -- Kheider (talk) 21:06, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Can you answer this: why should "asteroid" be appended, what is its added value? --JorisvS (talk) 08:06, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't mind one way or the other. Reyk  YO!  11:36, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Messenger observations?
Now, as the mission of Messenger has come to an end, the question arises if there have been any further searches for vulcanoids. Does anybody have information about that? If there are no further results, I suggest the section about Messenger should be removed.Renerpho (talk) 02:20, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
 * It needs updating. MESSENGER has apparently searched for vulcanoids, so regardless of the results, it is inappropriate to remove mention altogether. Instead, the result of the search should be added. --JorisvS (talk) 07:33, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Please check sentence
"Due to technical problems, none of the images were revealed any vulcanoids." This sentence is grammatically incorrect or incomplete (at least it appears so to me as a non-native speaker). What exactly was the consequence of the problems? The fact that no vulcanoids were found may be due to their possible non-existence, so it cannot be claimed that it was (definitely) due to technical reasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.208.249.149 (talk) 01:03, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅. I think it should be better now. Thank you for noting it. --JorisvS (talk) 13:59, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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Naming question
If a vulcanoid is an asteroid in a stable intra-Mercurian orbit, as Vulcanoid claims, then is there a name for asteroids which are currently in unstable intra-Mercurian orbits? Double sharp (talk) 15:59, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, seems that some would call such asteroids vulcanoids too. Added with a source. Double sharp (talk) 21:30, 13 October 2021 (UTC)