Did Hubble telescope or another one, discover the Planet Vulcan?

Question

Some telescoped did! Its a reddish color planet orbiting the star 40 Eridani A in the Alpha quadrant, 16 light years from earth. Much of its surface consists of deserts and mountain ranges. Its much hotter and has stronger surface gravity than earth. Its atmosphere is thinner than that of earth. No moon is known to exist. Its believed this planet has been around before 500,000 B.C.E. Star Trek liked the name of this planet that they adopted it into the series. Bet you didn't know that, did you? Who was it that discovered this planet?

Answer 1

The planet you refer to was discovered fairly recently in 2000. The Hubble telescope allowed astronomers to gather details about the planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani, however, this planet was not named Vulcan and Star Trek did not take the name from this planet. The original Star Trek was televised long before this planet was discovered.

Added 1/24/07: There is no named planet Vulcan. Urbain Le Verrier did NOT discover Vulcan, nor any planet, in 1859. Rather, he proposed that a planet (which he called Vulcan), was the cause of a perturbation in Mercury's orbit. He theorized that Vulcan was in an orbit around the sun within Mercury's orbit. Of course, no one ever found this supposed planet, and Verrier's theory was later discredited after Einstein's later Theory of Relativity was proven to be the cause of the perturbation in Mercury's orbit.

Answer 2

With out a doubt,there has to be other Intelligent life in the universe.We know that for life to exist there must be water,light and Temperature. How many planets are orbiting suns in the universe? i want to guess and say that there are most likely hundreds of life supporting planets and yes i would imagine that some are far superior to our race.Think about it,we have a whole Society based on greed and ruled by wars.

Answer 3

We CANNOT image earth size planet oustide of the solar system.
On Hubble, even Pluto is only one pixel wide.

I do hope you realize that a planet half a millon years old is totally ridiculous, ours is 4.7 BILLION years old.

So, I don't know where you got your information, but you been owned. There is no planet Vulcan known to orbit Eridani A; and by the way 40 Eridani A is a triple system, that means it has 3 stars, and the primary star is 4 billon years old.

Answer 4

It is in debate if that planet really exists or not anyways, and I believe is currently identified as a collection of possible asteroids. The alleged observations of this planet were made from observatory telescopes on Earth, if I recall correctly.

And I mean an actual theory of an existing planet, not something from a Sci-Fi program.

Answer 5

French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier in 1859

Answer 6

Not surprising: Le Verrier was French, and who ever heard of a French mathematician in the United States of America ? Nobody.