Vulcan: The Ninth Planet That Never Existed

Vulcan was a hypothetical planet located between Mercury and the Sun, which, although many recognized astronomers claimed it existed, was never seen by any telescope.
What happened to this planet, and why was it never found?
Let's find out!
Mercury is one of the closest planets to Earth, and records indicate that humanity has known its existence for hundreds of years. Still, during the eighteenth century, there was a problem with Mercury's orbit that astronomers could not explain.
To better understand this, you should know that the planets have several movements around the sun; the two best known are translation, the movement they make around the sun, and rotation, which they rotate on themselves.
But there are other movements, one of them is the precession of perihelion; this movement has to do with the planet's orbit. The planets revolve around the sun, forming an ellipse where one of the foci of that ellipse is the sun, but the other focus is not static but rotates slowly until it gives a complete turn to the sun. (1)
This movement is present in all the planets, but in Mercury, it is much more noticeable, and this is where the problem was; since using physics and Newton's laws known until then, the observations indicated that the precession of the perihelion of Mercury was much greater than that obtained by making calculations.
This is where the French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier makes his appearance.

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Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO/ Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:26 Precession of Perihelion
01:46 The most reputable exoplanet
03:00 The laws said so
04:37 Vulcan exists
06:23 The hunt for the new planet begins
08:47 Einstein ripped Vulcan
10:47 What happened...
12:15 Why is Mercury the most difficult planet to visit?

#insanecuriosity #vulcan #planet9

[Antonio-ltsp]

"Vulcan never existed"
Spock: "-Am I a joke to you?"

[NW-smxq]

@3:44

"The Greek goddess Hephastus..."

Either my knowledge of the Greek pantheon is lesser than I thought or...

[williammetz]

I stayed in Rawlings on my way up to Yellowstone in 2020. Interesting that it has a connection to Vulcan.

[jonathanozik]

Insert "Vulkan lives!" meme here

[kevanhubbard]

Even if it did exist it'd be very hard to see as even Mercury is a challenge.I have caught it naked eye a few times but it's difficult due to residual sunlight (best do if after the sunset rather than sunrise for optical safety reasons!). I'm not sure if I would say Mercury or Uranus, for different reasons, is the most challenging naked eye planet?

[hyper]

What if it did exist but the sun ate it

[ianfeuerhake]

Are there any plans to look again with the James Webb telescope during an eclipse?

[KhaoticDeterminism]

In a world that’s only 3D there’s a Hell but when viewed in 5D there’s no Hell.

[itsthat]

Did he get braces? I thought it was perhaps excessive 'de-essing' in the audio engineer process which mimics a lisp, but now it continues so not sure. Maybe a candy in his mouth at the time. Or maybe they used an AI of the narrator and fire the narrator lol

[mrhaha]

When will you fix the sound on your videos one minute it’s normal then it gets quieter then loud then quiet again sort the microphone setup before beginning the shows please I enjoy the videos and would like to hear it all not just half of it :(

[Bryfy]

The scientists looking for planet 9 believe there are 2 planets beyond Neptune, Astropro has a pretty cool video on it

[TheStruggleFest]

the CC doesn't match the narration

[retepeyahaled]

And rabbits learn to fly within hundred solar spheres north of the preclipse anomaly. Beep beep.

[davebosch]

IF ROTATING ON THE SUN OF SOLAR SYSTEM THAT IS BELONG TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM, ,

[ar]

WTF??? if you activate closed caption. the narrator here / joe biden? dialog has nothing to do with his yammering.?🤨

[toddkurzbard]

Never existed?

Tell that to Mr. Spock.

[undrajohnson]

Vulcan was real you don't know what your talking about, you guys lie so much!