A journey to small places

varonica

varonica
Nemac said:
Hey there.

i just found a system with some little planets <200km smallest got 144 km. not all scanned yet
https://www.edsm.net/en/system/bodies/id/15986453/name/HD+175025

but its a little far away 5018 LY to SOL.
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Excellent find, it's not currently on my list so that's good. I have been distracted for a while by life and other projects but I will get back to it when I get a chance. In fact since you have kindly taken the trouble to post this I shall make it my first target when I restart, it has quite a few small bodies so it should be fun.

Fly safe.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Wonderful thread! Only just stumbled upon this while looking for a nice scenic landable, approx. 200km in radius.

In reading your thread I see quite a lot of "bleak" and "unremarkable" worlds and I was wondering ... do you have a favourite of those you've visited so far? Somewhere with really interesting terrain, spectacular lighting and wonderful views (perhaps of a nebula or nearby star?). Oh, and not too far from Sol (<1kly)?

I'll read the thread more carefully later but I just wondered whether any of the small places you visited really stuck in your mind?

o7
 

Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari
Smallest landable body?
Edit, I just saw somebody with a better one.
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varonica

varonica
Alec Turner said:
Wonderful thread! Only just stumbled upon this while looking for a nice scenic landable, approx. 200km in radius.

In reading your thread I see quite a lot of "bleak" and "unremarkable" worlds and I was wondering ... do you have a favourite of those you've visited so far? Somewhere with really interesting terrain, spectacular lighting and wonderful views (perhaps of a nebula or nearby star?). Oh, and not too far from Sol (<1kly)?

I'll read the thread more carefully later but I just wondered whether any of the small places you visited really stuck in your mind?

o7
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There's one that sticks simply because it is so unusual, and that's because it is the only icy body I know of under 200km radius, it's Hi'iaka and it's in the Sol system so not to far to go :D

Oh yes a warning, the gravity is seriously anomalous, over 1g for a tiny icy moon, I am wondering whether it is just a bug or something of more significance since it has never been fixed, I intend giving it a thorough going over next time I am in the bubble just to make sure it's not really an alien listening post in disguise.

Another one to note simply because of the colour is HIP 24052 3 a, it's practically on top of a very bright white star so everything is very...bright, it's a bit out of the way though being 660ly from Sol.

For nebula I would suggest Pleione 3 A, a blue nebula featured in some of the volcanic sites competitions, that's just over 380ky from Sol.

Fly safe o7
 

varonica

varonica
Kurama 1100 said:
Smallest landable body?
Edit, I just saw somebody with a better one.
https://i.imgur.com/eUpsb0g.jpg
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That looks like a good one. The smallest landable body I know of is 138km in radius, so this is just one more km in radius, however the smallest is about 50kly from Sol I think, I will have to check next time I get a chance. I got a chance, the smallest one listed on eddb is 137km in radius, there are a couple of others at 3km and 9km but I suspect they are anomalous records, I have checked quite a few supposedly tiny bodies in the double and single digits and they were all out by several factors of ten so I expect the two listed at 3km and 9km to actually be 300km and 900km in radius. These anomalous reading are usually from the old days where details were entered into the database manually and need a visit by an explorer with EDDiscovery for them to be corrected.

The one listed as 137km in radius is Flyiedgiae QN-T d3-17 AB 1 b. It's only around 10kly from Sol and it's actually in a Neutron star system, I have other reasons for wanting to visit landable bodies in Neutron and white dwarf star systems, apart from the view of course, so this looks like a priority for me.
 

duckofdeath

duckofdeath
Hehe, yeah, that was a crazy exploration day. I found that space pellet on the same day as I found the 9.90G landable planet. :D
It sort of made me start living by the rule when hunting high gravity planets, if I find a system with a really small planet in it, I take it as a sign that the RNG has generated a lot of systems with planets in that corner and therefore increasing the likeliness of a huge planet in a nearby system. The rule sort of feels like it works. I think.

..oh, and hi varonica. :D
 
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