====== Vulcanian ======
{{ :worldgen:pcl:vulcanian.png?160|Vulanian Asteroid}}
**Group:** [[small_body_group]] \\
**Class:** [[small_body_group#Vulcanoidal Class]]

Vulcanian asteroids are hot rocky objects high in metals and other heavy elements. They are generally found close to a star. Due to excessive solar heating, some may glow red hot, or even be molten.

They are too small to sustain an atmosphere, but the hotter ones may have a 'atmosphere' of metallic gases that is continuously being lost to space, and replenished from the surface.

==== Atmosphere ====

Such worlds rarely have an atmosphere. Sometimes they will have the barest minimum of a trace of Exotic elements (mostly silicate or metallic vapours). Rarely, this can be shaped by a magnetic field.

==== Typical Resources ====

  * Silicates
  * Ferric Ore
  * Heavy Metals
  * Rare Metals
  * Precious Metals