Exploring Vulcan: From Star Trek to Mercury’s Orbit

In Star Trek 3 : The Search for Spock, the resurrected Spock is found on the Genisis planet. But where can we find the planet Vulcan ? Vulcan is the god of fire and in the 19th century peculiarities were observed in the orbit of the planet Mercury. This anomaly in Mercury’s orbit could was tentatively attributed by Urbain Le Verrier to an unknown planet in an orbit closer to the sun than Mercury. Because of its proximity to the sun this planet was called Vulcan.