Restoring the MAS
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I will make an infographic as soon as possible
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Oh well, doing that revealed another problem... The asteroid belt is horribly misplaced in the descriptions. We can't have an asteroid belt after Chrysos and before Thalassa, the biggest of the gas giants. Their gravity would tear it apart! We could possibly have one, but small, which would be on a synchronous orbit as Chrysos and Indigo. It would be a weird object that circled Atos and Indigo, but not Chrysos (gravity of which would be motor and stabilizer of which). But again - that would make the system look strange and unbelievable.
Another option is to place an asteroid belt between Pyros and Chrysos (and therefore Indigo!) That would make navigation to the second inhabitable planet quite a mess, but hey, that's what the space adventure is about!
Another option is to place an asteroid belt between Pyros and Chrysos (and therefore Indigo!) That would make navigation to the second inhabitable planet quite a mess, but hey, that's what the space adventure is about!
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They could have a different orbital plane, so it'd be really rare for the gravity from both planets to actually have a significant effect?
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But then - what formed such a belt? Usually asteroids are what didn't form planets, and make a boundary of smaller planets and giants, because of the gravity of the latter. Other objects that form because of giants' gravity are: Trojans, "unbelted" asteroids on strange orbits, possibly some comets.
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Well if Chrysos shared it's orbit with Indigo, then their combined gravitational force could hold the asteroid belt in place, although I agree it'd make much better sense being between Indigo and Chrysos.
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Well, or even before Indigo! I'll make a few propositions.
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Sounds cool
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Here it is:
http://republikainterlandu.co.cc/archiw ... oAB,wL.png
The image doesn't show proportions of planets to their orbits' radiuses. I still don't know where to place the Asteroid Belt, though. It also shows the position of Momiji that we consider inappropriate now.
http://republikainterlandu.co.cc/archiw ... oAB,wL.png
The image doesn't show proportions of planets to their orbits' radiuses. I still don't know where to place the Asteroid Belt, though. It also shows the position of Momiji that we consider inappropriate now.
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Looks awesome Maybe the second planet of the Indigo system could have been picked up from the asteroid belt? So the belt can go somewhere near there?
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That looks great, Pawel!
As far as the asteroid belt is concerned, a possibility is the collision theory in that it's not leftovers from the primal system but rather debris from a planet that was destroyed cataclysmically.
And what would be the issue with bumping Momiji into the slot where Pyros is and pushing Pyros out a little further?
As far as the asteroid belt is concerned, a possibility is the collision theory in that it's not leftovers from the primal system but rather debris from a planet that was destroyed cataclysmically.
And what would be the issue with bumping Momiji into the slot where Pyros is and pushing Pyros out a little further?
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If we call one of the double planets Indigo, and the other Momiji, that should save any argument
I think that system would have to go between Micras and Pyros for it to have any chance of sustaining life, so I'm for swapping it.
I think that system would have to go between Micras and Pyros for it to have any chance of sustaining life, so I'm for swapping it.
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Well, I like what Joe proposed, but that would lead to Indigo/Momiji not sharing an orbit with Chrysos. This system is too complicated anyway. and then we could have an asteroid belt after Pyros.
By the way, the theory concerning Solar asteroid belt I heard leaned towards a conclusion that Jupiter's gravity didn't allow that planet to form (the more dense asteroid fields were scattered by it) rather than the planet was formed and destroyed.
By the way, the theory concerning Solar asteroid belt I heard leaned towards a conclusion that Jupiter's gravity didn't allow that planet to form (the more dense asteroid fields were scattered by it) rather than the planet was formed and destroyed.
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Are we in favour of the inner part of the system going:
Eos
Micras
Pyros
Indigo/Momiji
Asteroid Belt
Chrysos?
Eos
Micras
Pyros
Indigo/Momiji
Asteroid Belt
Chrysos?
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Well, what you've just proposed is in my opinion even better than my first thought (Eos, Micras Indigo&Momiji, Pyros) for two things:
a) it doesn't ruin previous backstories (probes usually ended up on Eos and Pyros orbit, and if Momiji&Indigo were closer than Pyros, we should be more busy with the double planet)
b) it makes a beautiful explanation of how the planets formed (they were gravity-unstable and were on similar orbit, one was still gathering mass by shredding parts of Asteroid Belt into it, which slowed it that much that the second one caught up and pulled the first one with it)
a) it doesn't ruin previous backstories (probes usually ended up on Eos and Pyros orbit, and if Momiji&Indigo were closer than Pyros, we should be more busy with the double planet)
b) it makes a beautiful explanation of how the planets formed (they were gravity-unstable and were on similar orbit, one was still gathering mass by shredding parts of Asteroid Belt into it, which slowed it that much that the second one caught up and pulled the first one with it)
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