A question about how rare or normal a certain discovery is...

[Marco Santos]

I would appretiate a little help from the more knowledgable in this game.
(sry for mistypes of my english, not native language)

I just parked this morning in a system i discovered, since i am at work now and cant get to the computer till later on...
And i stumble across something i havent seen so far, wich is a water world that has another water world orbiting the first (probrably is a moon but in system map after using the FSS says water world), with another water world close by to this 2.

Is this rare, or actually not that uncommon, and it is just me that didnt came across one like this yet.

Just wondering, since im curious, and i know others are more seasoned and can outright take that dought from me.

Tks!

O7 commanders!

 

[marx]

Water worlds in themselves are quite common, but a water world with a water world as its moon is much less so. So it's a pretty neat find, especially if any of them are terraforming candidates.

Oh, and moons will still be named as the same category, not as "water moon" for example. It's easy enough to tell even from only the name: for example, Bla Bla AA-A d4 4 would be the parent body, and Bla Bla AA-A d4 4 a would be its first moon.

 

[Marco Santos]

Water worlds in themselves are quite common, but a water world with a water world as its moon is much less so. So it's a pretty neat find, especially if any of them are terraforming candidates.

Oh, and moons will still be named as the same category, not as "water moon" for example. It's easy enough to tell even from only the name: for example, Bla Bla AA-A d4 4 would be the parent body, and Bla Bla AA-A d4 4 a would be its first moon.

Tks mate.

in fact it orbits and looks like a moon since its smaller but its not marked as a moon since it doesnt have the same name as the other and a number in front, maybe just a glitch...
When i get home, ill take screenshots and bookmark it, and when i get to the next station and sell the data (since i made 1st discovery and mapped them all already) i will post here so that if anyone wants to go and check it, they can.

 

[marx]

Might be a binary then, two planets orbiting a common barycenter. In that case, it would not be 4 and 4 a, but 4 and 5.

 

[Arnoldo]

I believe you're still fairly new to the game and starting out in the field of exploration - if you're going to start exploring further out or more often, you may want to brush up on some of the guides etc that the structure of the system map, object naming etc. Taking a look at some of the stickys ( or rather the posts in the links in the sticky threads) at the top of the Exploration sub-forum.

Have a good read through the forums etc and familiarise yourself with 'barycentres', 'binarys', HMC and other terminology.

If on PC you may also want to consider using ED Discovery, a popular exploration tool with very many functions - like a Swiss Army knife for explorers. Also look at registering on EDSM, another fantastic tool (web-based so no install needed).

If you do find anything really interesting, consider posting a pic on the forum - we're always keen to have our jealousy chips exercised..

Fly safe Cmdr..

 

[schlowi123]

I am right now working on a program to figure exactly this out. It will work just with the EDSM data though. So beside that the database is huge and getting the actual numbers always takes some time the only other limitation is that many types are not always scanned when encountered (e.g. icy rocks). So these limits will be lower limits (and for most planet types far too low).

But in general I want it to look for any planet-type combination/configuration of interest and spit out how much of these are found in the data.

 

[varonica]

Tks mate.

in fact it orbits and looks like a moon since its smaller but its not marked as a moon since it doesnt have the same name as the other and a number in front, maybe just a glitch...
When i get home, ill take screenshots and bookmark it, and when i get to the next station and sell the data (since i made 1st discovery and mapped them all already) i will post here so that if anyone wants to go and check it, they can.

Look at the orbit lines, if it's a moon there will be one orbit line because the barycentre around which they both orbit is below the surface of the larger body, if it's a bibary there will be two orbit lines because the barycentre around which they both orbit is between the two bodies in open space. Technically Jupiter and the sun are a binary system because the barycentre around which they both orbit is just above the surface of the sun but I think astronomers give that one a pass as it would make things complicated when describing systems with large gas giants.