Is this normal, or did I miss something? This is really strange!
Egg-Shaped Gas Giant
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Is this normal, or did I miss something? This is really strange!
That's no yolk!
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Cracking thread.
Correct. It's not technically "egg-shaped" - if you look at it from the poles, it's perfectly circular.
A truly "egg-shaped" planet would be one that is stretched out by tidal forces. Unfortunately, tidal stretching is not yet modelled in-game.
Here's a highly oblate ringed gas giant I found a couple of years ago.
And you can get highly oblate solid worlds too. They have to be rotating much faster to be noticeably oblate, because it's much easier to stretch gas than rock or ice. Usually you notice it with a tidally-locked moon in really, really close orbit around another moon. Like this one I prepared earlier:
And you can get highly oblate solid worlds too. They have to be rotating much faster to be noticeably oblate, because it's much easier to stretch gas than rock or ice. Usually you notice it with a tidally-locked moon in really, really close orbit around another moon. Like this one I prepared earlier:
Although, just to be pedantic for a moment, even that wouldn't be "egg" shaped, since many eggs are wider at one end than the other. Rather, that's just an elongated ellipsoid. (Roche ellipsoid, Prolate ellipsoid, Biaxial (or uniaxial technically) ellipsoid, something along those lines).
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Oh, nice find!
Definitely one for the holiday photo albumen.
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Although, just to be pedantic for a moment, even that wouldn't be "egg" shaped, since many eggs are wider at one end than the other. Rather, that's just an elongated ellipsoid. (Roche ellipsoid, Prolate ellipsoid, Biaxial (or uniaxial technically) ellipsoid, something along those lines).
I was feeling proud of myself for resisting that pedantry, but I am glad someone else did go there
I was feeling proud of myself for resisting that pedantry, but I am glad someone else did go there
Ugh you guys! Eggcellence.