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Some time back, I came up with a list of potentially colliding planets. Some of them were bogus, but a couple were legit. Welcome to Ellairb SJ-B b42-10. A few days ago, this happened:
Sadly, the timing wasn't great for me so I missed the initial collision, and didn't get too long to "play". I did still manage to get my ship trapped inside one of the bodies though.
I also took a timelapse of the collision from a distance (once I rescued my ship in non-Horizons mode). This is more-or-less 1 second = 1 minute
You can see there's far less contact than the other collider, and as such the collision duration is a lot shorter, maybe just a few hours worth. But the good thing about this one is the cycle - I've worked out the "mean time between collisions" to be ~22d 17h 15m. This happened a few days ago, so it's likely to happen again in under 3 weeks time.
So I used to keep my findings in their own thread but a while back it looks like someone turned on auto-locking of threads deemed "old", and so that thread has been locked for a good couple of months. It looks like if there's no updates for 3-4 months then the threads get locked. For the other forums, that's probably fine and dandy. But 3-4 months in the life of an explorer is depressingly short. Ho hum. I guess I'll just post new stuff each in their own thread . Expect more unicorns.
Some time back, I came up with a list of potentially colliding planets. Some of them were bogus, but a couple were legit. Welcome to Ellairb SJ-B b42-10. A few days ago, this happened:
Sadly, the timing wasn't great for me so I missed the initial collision, and didn't get too long to "play". I did still manage to get my ship trapped inside one of the bodies though.
[video=youtube_share;yjJJGa-JtQA]https://youtu.be/yjJJGa-JtQA[/video]
[video=youtube_share;QO-9wrz_-Wk]https://youtu.be/QO-9wrz_-Wk[/video]
[video=youtube_share;QO-9wrz_-Wk]https://youtu.be/QO-9wrz_-Wk[/video]
I also took a timelapse of the collision from a distance (once I rescued my ship in non-Horizons mode). This is more-or-less 1 second = 1 minute
[video=youtube_share;8SlMHgFiueo]https://youtu.be/8SlMHgFiueo[/video]
You can see there's far less contact than the other collider, and as such the collision duration is a lot shorter, maybe just a few hours worth. But the good thing about this one is the cycle - I've worked out the "mean time between collisions" to be ~22d 17h 15m. This happened a few days ago, so it's likely to happen again in under 3 weeks time.