So, do you get crushed on the surface when the moon hits you? or do you clip through?
Who's seen the point of contact?
Who's seen the point of contact?
Exploration - When worlds colide
- Thread starter Ben Ryder
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I am about 45km from POC here...
Clipped through the moon I was landed on (moon B). The other one (moon C) smacked pretty hard, can't land on that either.
Need ~100 m/s vertical thrust to stay at fixed height from moon C surface (which is whizzing past me horizontally quite fast too).
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What is interesting is that I can enter supercruise here since I am not mass locked, and no escape vector.
I think I got too close and swapped reference frames. My altitude is changing and I'm not moving.
Can clearly see the contact ring.
Update: Yeah. Gravity flipped on me. I'm thrusting down toward c and it shows me gaining altitude.
Can clearly see the contact ring.
Update: Yeah. Gravity flipped on me. I'm thrusting down toward c and it shows me gaining altitude.
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Scary stuff. I could see 2b approaching. It was really weird seeing it move against the horizon. I watched it cover the canyon in front of me. A couple of minutes before it got to me, my lat/long appeared to shift to 2b and started changing rapidly. My artificial horizon also switched as if it was on 2b. Then the surface of 2b just passed over me, and I'm still parked on the surface of 2c, looking at the insides of 2b.
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Cruising along near the contact ring.
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I managed to get my video capture going, and got some pretty good raw footage. Lots of reference frame shifts among other things. Uploading now...
Can someone do this experiment? Put your ship on the surface of one moon, ahead of the other one. Turn off engines (do not land, landing gear retracted). See if other moon sucks you up. Recommend shields on at max pips. No need to crash on any planet! This is just to see if the gravity effectively changes at some point.
Most awesome find ever.
I wonder if we can get Frontier to replace it with a mashed up volcanic world with a huge debris ring now!
That would amazing. The discoverer, Antal Commander hypermumm shoudl get an award or atleast a mention in the News Letter.
It's pretty darn cool.
Can someone help Cmdr Nutter out? He seems to be stuck inside a planet and is completely mass locked.
It does. My artificial horizon and altimeter swapped back and forth several times.
Just like it did in this older video https://youtu.be/NGrD6S7iZHw?t=10m9s , when you get closer to the other moon.
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Here is the first one. Two more are uploading now...
[video=youtube;12XQ_aAjysE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12XQ_aAjysE[/video]
[video=youtube;12XQ_aAjysE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12XQ_aAjysE[/video]