Sounding Rocket Payload Seeks Vulcanoids Between Mercury and the Sun

Scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) are eagerly awaiting data from a NASA-sponsored suborbital sounding rocket flight last month that may provide the first evidence of Vulcanoids, the small asteroids that are hypothesized to lie in a belt between Mercury and the Sun. The SWRI payload...

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