160km radius moon

[tafkabb]

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I'm always on the lookout for tiny moons, I just like driving on them. But this is the smallest I've ever found; it was odd flying low over the surface @490m/s in an Asp, seeing the horizon move visibly towards you. What's the smallest possible? I thought it was 280km/r or so

 

[Numenor1379]

I think the record is 137km. Still that is a very nice find. Congrats! =)

 

[varonica]

I think the record is 137km. Still that is a very nice find. Congrats! =)

That's not just the record, there's good evidence that at the moment that's the smallest possible.

 

[Dr. Nagi]

I like how it says Earth masses: 0.0000 xD

 

[Skip Rockbounder]

That's not just the record, there's good evidence that at the moment that's the smallest possible.

I'm not that keen on the 'smallest possible' bit, it's a false number (cut off point) and not representative of the real Galaxy, similar to the 13%, 33% or 100% metal.... what happened to 48% or 71% or any of the other numbers that get missed?

However, that tiny planet must have been a joy to find and drive around on, nice one, the only problem with tiny worlds is collecting the materials after shooting the rock... do they even come down?

 

[Friedenreich Xante]

the only problem with tiny worlds is collecting the materials after shooting the rock... do they even come down?

Wondering too, if they get shot into Orbit that would be pretty useless or you'd have to have another commander scooping them with his ship. I'm sure you can also pretty easily jump your SRV into Orbit. That is some fun for sure.

 

[varonica]

I'm not that keen on the 'smallest possible' bit, it's a false number (cut off point) and not representative of the real Galaxy, similar to the 13%, 33% or 100% metal.... what happened to 48% or 71% or any of the other numbers that get missed?

However, that tiny planet must have been a joy to find and drive around on, nice one, the only problem with tiny worlds is collecting the materials after shooting the rock... do they even come down?

No, that's the smallest size that the stellar forge can currently generate as a procedural body, so of course not representative of the real galaxy. We have mainly statistical evidence for this. Large landable bodies slowly trail off in size increase and you will have one body holding the record at any one time, small bodies cut off sharply at 137km radius, there are many small bodies at 137km radius but none smaller and I think we have a large enough sample to draw a good conclusion just based on statistics. There are other reasons to come to this conclusion that I have explored extensively elsewhere but we have enough there alone.