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| Friday 11 Aug 2017: The planet Vulcan |
| 19th-Century French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, who earlier helped the discovery of the planet Neptune, also predicted the existence of a planet between Mercury and the Sun, which he named Vulcan. The anomalies in Mercury's orbit which he saw as proof, were later explained by Einstein's theory of general relativity. |