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OFP
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Joined: February 10, 2002
Posts: 919
From: USA
|  Posted: 2003-09-03 13:48
Well doing my real map to sol.
I noticed that the smallest moon u can get is Luna.
Most of the true to life moons aren't even half the size of Luna.
In fact they are flatten out longates pieces of rock. Some of them are big asteriods caught around a planet's gravity in a orbit. They don't go smashing into a planet. But stay in a orbit around the planets.
Okay so is it possible we can get some weird shapped Single Large Asteriod that are half the size of Luna and captureable. Some are even Ice and rock composites. Like comets caught in a orbit arond a planet. But they dont' have tails.
Not all moons are nice and round...
just go to www.solarviews.com and check up on it...
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Pope
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Joined: June 11, 2002
Posts: 2449
From: World of tomorrow
| Posted: 2003-09-03 16:46
actually almost all bodies under a certain size are not round, because they werent formed from the protoplanetary discs directly.
there are also shattered moons and other stuff.
in order to make a realistic solar system, youd have to have far more possibilities in maps.
in fact, an even half-ways realistic solar system simulator is a real challenge.
the other point is that 99% of the smaller bodies and a large part of the regular moons are far to seismically unstable and/or under constant bombardment to make anything like an even small colony feasible on them.
good luck though with your work, ill have to check out your map one day..
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DOM700 [-IMO-]
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Joined: July 26, 2001
Posts: 3175
From: Eckental, Germany, Sol-System
| Posted: 2003-09-05 06:48
@Sono Planets dont look like balls because they were made out of the planetary disk, that form is caused by "gravity", something which does not exist in DS
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