NASA plans to look for asteroids inside Mercury's orbit.
FLYING HIGH: Scientists are planning to use a two-seat version of the U-2 to see if vulcanoids -- hypothetical small asteroids inside the orbit of Mercury -- actually exist, using an instrument developed by the Southwest Research Institute that has already detected the occultation of a star by a...
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