[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ASTRONOMY - StudyStack [PAR] OBJECTS THAT PASS CLOSER TO THE SUN THAN MERCURY HAVE BEEN 
NAMED FOR THIS MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE, ICARUS. IN 1582 THE MAN... [DOC] [TLE] Vulcan (hypothetical planet) - Wikipedia [PAR] Vulcan is a small hypothetical planet that was proposed to exist in an orbit 
between Mercury and the Sun. Attempting to explain peculiarities of Mercury's 
orbit, the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier hypothesized that 
they were the result of another planet, which he named "Vulcan". ... Other than 
Mercury, asteroid 2007 EB26, whose orbit has a semi-major axis... [DOC] [TLE] Mercury Facts: Interesting Facts about the Planet Mercury [PAR] Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and is also the smallest of the eight 
planets ... years or so, Mercury can be seen from Earth passing across the face of 
the Sun. ... Mercury has been known to humanity since ancient times and 
although its .... dense than the Earth's atmosphere, Mercury's is closer to a true 
vacuum than... [DOC] [TLE] Mythology of the Planets - Universe Today [PAR] Mercury gets its name from the winged messenger of the gods. ... The only 
objects in our Solar System brighter than Venus are the Sun and the Moon. ... 
Earth is the only planet not named after a Roman god or goddess, but it is 
associated with the goddess ... Astronomy Cast has episodes on all the planets 
including Saturn. [DOC] [TLE] Astronomical Myths of Mercury & the Sun | holoscience.com | The ... [PAR] Jan 14, 2008 ... For more than 30 years we have virtually ignored Mercury. ... believe that 
Messenger could crack some of them on its first pass. .... The partitioning usually 
includes smaller objects  'hot' gas giants  so-called because they have been 
.... If Mercury formed close to the sun, there shouldn't be much iron... [DOC] [TLE] Space Today Online -- Solar System Kuiper Belt mystery objects ... [PAR] The newly-discovered object is more distant than the mysterious planetoid Sedna 
... If Eris ever had been close to the Sun, the methane ice would have been 
boiled off. ... The so-called terrestrial planets  Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars  are 
... They named the object Sedna after the mythical Inuit goddess of the sea. It is 
said... [DOC] [TLE] Planets of our Solar System :: The Planets Today [PAR] Mercury has almost no atmosphere and is blasted by the Sun during the day and 
... entered Mercury's Orbit on 18th March 2011, the first man made object ever to 
do so. ... As it orbits, Venus comes closer to Earth than any other planet in the 
solar .... Mars is named after the Roman god of war and has been known since... [DOC] [TLE] Hypothetical Planets - Views of the Solar System [PAR] Vulcan, the intra-Mercurial planet; Mercury's Moon; Neith, the Moon of Venus; 
The Earth's ... No new objects brighter than 9th magnitude were found near the 
Sun. ... Comets have been observed to pass close enough to the Sun and ..... In 
1905, Pickering though he had discovered a tenth moon, which he named 
Themis. [DOC] [TLE] Greek Mythology - Myth Encyclopedia - god, story, legend, names ... [PAR] These figures inhabited a realm that stretched beyond the Greek landscape to 
the ... Heroes and ordinary humans in Greek myths frequently discovered that 
things were not ... Many have been passed down from ancient times in more than 
one version. .... Hermes (Roman Mercury) was the son of Zeus and yet another 
Titan. [DOC] [TLE] Wikijunior:Solar System/Beck Foundation - Wikibooks, open books ... [PAR] Since then, humans have been launching vehicles into space to explore the ... 
The probes send back information to Earth that scientists study to figure out what 
it means. .... The rest of the things in the Solar System orbit (travel around) the 
Sun. .... These are the Sun, our Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. [DOC] [TLE] Asteroids.htm - Cosmic Elk [PAR] Since it was launched more satellites

Question: Objects that pass closer to the sun than Mercury have been named for this mythological figure
Answer: Icarus