A planet that can't be mapped?

JVMerlino

JVMerlino
Forgive the ignorance, but are there classes of planets that can't be mapped? I noticed that one planet in a system wasn't mapped, and so I tried to do it and my probes just disappear when they hit the planet. The "percentage mapped" just stays at 0%. The planet is Rho Phoenicis 4. Selecting it in the System Map shows no information.
Am I not aware of some limitation or restriction here?
 

JVMerlino

JVMerlino
There was no info at all. It was purple-ish? The descriptions of the DSS that I've read said that it can't map stars, but mentions nothing about it not working on specific planet types.
 

CMDR Flavius Funk

CMDR Flavius Funk
Can't map black holes'=)
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GraXXoR

GraXXoR
Those Y class stars are insidious. They sometimes only have a surface temperature of 400K but will still burn tf out of you if you go anywhere near them.
 

GraXXoR

GraXXoR
Bottom Hat said:
One of those purple brown dwarves. They really need to make their mind up what color to be then stick to it.
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Erm... You do realise that brown dwarfs aren’t actually brown, right?

the coolest ones would be purple or magenta at least.
Though never brown.

might want to fill out your astrophysics know how.
Also Dwarves are small Demi humans from mythical tales. Dwarfs are small stars.
 

Bottom Hat

Bottom Hat
GraXXoR said:
Erm... You do realise that brown dwarfs aren’t actually brown, right?

the coolest ones would be purple or magenta at least.
Though never brown.

might want to fill out your astrophysics know how.
Also Dwarves are small Demi humans from mythical tales. Dwarfs are small stars.
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I like to make ridiculous claims on the interweb and then stand by them, even in the face of science and fact.

Hence, I am sure you will now be able to see how thoroughly wrong you are.

I will let you off though, you are a forum noob after all, and you don't play the game or know anything about spaceshippiness.
 

Darth Ender

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GraXXoR said:
Erm... You do realise that brown dwarfs aren’t actually brown, right?

the coolest ones would be purple or magenta at least.
Though never brown.

might want to fill out your astrophysics know how.
Also Dwarves are small Demi humans from mythical tales. Dwarfs are small stars.
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yea, cuz elite is all about realism. that's why you get ones that are below 0C and still glow and over heat your ship on proximity.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
JVMerlino said:
Shouldn't it have a letter at the end instead of a number if it's a star?
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Initial letters are only given to the primary system bodies - basically, anything which is sufficiently heavy that the centre of mass of it and the first (heaviest) star is outside the surface of the heavy star. Anything lighter than that is directly orbiting a primary system body even if it's also a star, and gets a subsidiary designation.

Stars are usually heavy enough to be a primary system body, but Y-class dwarves are often not, if the main star is big enough - they're really light, as "stars" go.

If you have a really heavy primary star - a supergiant or an O-class - you can even get some real stars (M-class, at any rate) orbiting them as A7 rather than co-orbiting as B.
 
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