B ring Location that's not located. ***Not raxxla***

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EOCH FLYUAE HA-W B32-18 planet 6

Oddity with this one, the system map shows that this planet has a b ring, but when going to it no B ring in sight. Went out to the "moon" F, and then back to planet. Then went "up" from one of the poles for few minutes looking back entire time to see if ring would show.

B ring inner perimeter according to system map
2,073,043 km
Outer perimeter
3,290,750 km
26,347,837,440.0 MT
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
This is fairly normal for the really big outer rings.

It's got a disc area of 20 trillion square kilometres, and a mass of 26 billion megatonnes. So assuming a kilometre of thickness, that's a density of around 0.001 MT/km^3, or about 1 gram per cubic metre. (i.e. about 1000 times less dense than air on Earth sea level)

So the ring is a very loose cloud of dust and the occasional small rock, considerably denser than the interstellar medium, but not really anything to look at.
 

varonica

varonica
Ian Doncaster said:
This is fairly normal for the really big outer rings.

It's got a disc area of 20 trillion square kilometres, and a mass of 26 billion megatonnes. So assuming a kilometre of thickness, that's a density of around 0.001 MT/km^3, or about 1 gram per cubic metre. (i.e. about 1000 times less dense than air on Earth sea level)

So the ring is a very loose cloud of dust and the occasional small rock, considerably denser than the interstellar medium, but not really anything to look at.
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Didn't we calculate the density required to be visible once? I can't remember what it was now but there's a definite cut off point where the ring becomes invisible due to low density, although I have noticed on the odd occaision this doesn't quite match the density required to pull you out of SC and more than once I have been dropped out of SC by an otherwise invisible ring.
 
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