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I think it's one of the Pierson's Puppeteer planets, personally.
By my calculations, and being liberal with estimates, the thing couldn't be traveling any faster than 200 meters per second on average, or it would fly off into space. At that rate, it would take a good three million years to get from here to Alpha Proxima. If someone would care to do the math a little more exactly, please do.
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Actually, they did. A long time ago, some scientists thought there might be another planet closer to the sun than Mercury is. They called the theoretical planet Vulcan, but such a planet was never found.
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The perturbations in Mercury's orbit were thought to be caused by a small planet orbiting even nearer to the sun than Mercury. It turns out that they eventually calculated the time distortion at Mercury's orbit due to the strong solar gravity, and it turns out that Einstein was right about that, too. Exit, Vulcan, enter, gravity-induced time distortion.
Go fig. Nature really is a mother!
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The God Vulcan was cast from the heavens by Zeus, who was once impersonated by a stone. (when his mother discovered that his father, Cronos was eating all his children, she substituted a rock in Zeus's blankets for Zeus, and fooled Cronos.)
The hypothetical PLANET Vulcan was "cast from the heavens" by the gravity-theory of Albert EINSTEIN, whose name means "a stone."
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Um... The planets have Roman names. You'd have to call it Proserpina, not Persephone (which is Greek).
And, actually, I suggested to Sol after I posted this that they should call it Vulcan if it's a brown dwarf. Because, if it's a planet, it'll be so cold that calling it Vulcan would be, shall we say, illogical. A brown dwarf, however, would be relatively warm, so it would make more sense.
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