Posted by: AtomikKrab
« on: April 08, 2010, 08:45:21 PM »Asteriod #3, it had some good minerals so dropped a mining colony and renamed it 
Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: April 08, 2010, 09:16:49 AM »Quote from: "AtomikKrab"
then asteriod belt should be several thousand instead of what it is, minimum size rules are good... although i'd like to see ceres.The number of asteroids is a compromise between reality and playability. Ceres is there but it isn't specifically named. Look for a 900+ km diameter asteroid in the Mars - Jupiter belt. That is Ceres.
Steve
Posted by: AtomikKrab
« on: April 05, 2010, 12:35:38 PM »then asteriod belt should be several thousand instead of what it is, minimum size rules are good... although i'd like to see ceres.
Posted by: Father Tim
« on: April 02, 2010, 01:11:38 PM »Technically, Earth has three new moons . . . the largest of which is barely 30 meters across. #:-]
Posted by: praguepride
« on: April 02, 2010, 08:25:43 AM »Doesn't Jupiter have a new moon too?
Posted by: UnLimiTeD
« on: April 02, 2010, 06:22:39 AM »And you have to add Eris 
^^
^^Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: April 02, 2010, 02:15:53 AM »Quote from: "praguepride"
Just curious, scrolling through looking at Sol's system info.The Sol System isn't an example of Aurora's system generation as I typed it into the database
Pluto is listed as a terrestrial with 0.08 gravity and a diameter of 2,302km
However, two moons are listed as being larger but still are defined as chunks. Perhaps this leads into the "Pluto shouldn't be classified as a planet" discussion but I'm just curious what the cutoff point was:
Triton - 0.18 gravity, 2,704km diameter
Europa - 0.15 gravity, 3,130km diameter
Now Io is the smallest "terrestrial" in Sol, so I'm guessing that with these stats:
Io - 0.18 gravity, 3,660km
the cutoff is 3,500km (to keep things round)
I have no idea if this means anything, but just noticed it and thought I'd ask.
. Pluto should probably be changed to a chunk.Steve
Posted by: praguepride
« on: April 01, 2010, 11:54:33 AM »Just curious, scrolling through looking at Sol's system info.
Pluto is listed as a terrestrial with 0.08 gravity and a diameter of 2,302km
However, two moons are listed as being larger but still are defined as chunks. Perhaps this leads into the "Pluto shouldn't be classified as a planet" discussion but I'm just curious what the cutoff point was:
Triton - 0.18 gravity, 2,704km diameter
Europa - 0.15 gravity, 3,130km diameter
Now Io is the smallest "terrestrial" in Sol, so I'm guessing that with these stats:
Io - 0.18 gravity, 3,660km
the cutoff is 3,500km (to keep things round)
I have no idea if this means anything, but just noticed it and thought I'd ask.
Pluto is listed as a terrestrial with 0.08 gravity and a diameter of 2,302km
However, two moons are listed as being larger but still are defined as chunks. Perhaps this leads into the "Pluto shouldn't be classified as a planet" discussion but I'm just curious what the cutoff point was:
Triton - 0.18 gravity, 2,704km diameter
Europa - 0.15 gravity, 3,130km diameter
Now Io is the smallest "terrestrial" in Sol, so I'm guessing that with these stats:
Io - 0.18 gravity, 3,660km
the cutoff is 3,500km (to keep things round)
I have no idea if this means anything, but just noticed it and thought I'd ask.
