Vulcanoids!
...or the hunt for them, anyway. 
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MESSENGER Continues Hunt for Ever-Elusive Vulcanoids
[Tuesday, February 10, 2009] The mission's imaging team is taking advantage of the probe's proximity to the sun to continue their search for vulcanoids - small, rocky asteroids that have been postulated to circle the Sun in stable orbits inside the orbit of Mercury.
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...reaches its orbital perihelion today and passes within 0.31 astronomical units (AU) of the Sun
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=30577
Here's hoping!
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There in the valley of Scorpio, beneath the Cross of jade
Smoking on the seashell pipe the gypsies had made
We sat and we dreamed a while...in that crystal thought time in Mexico. ~Donovan
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