Exploration - When worlds colide

Blueiuiview

Blueiuiview
I don't think I'll be able to try an SRV jump since I can't land, do you think a docking computer would have helped? At least I could light both planets with my landing lights.
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Major Klutz

Major Klutz
DVHeld said:
But do you fall to the other moon? That's what I'd try myself haha
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I may try it. Waiting for timing with the motion of the moons.
What appears to happen is that you swap gravity sources, but you don't swap motion reference frames. So I could fall toward the other moon but would be moving relative to the moon I started on resulting in landing at >100m/s

The trouble I'm having is that when you're on the back side of the collision, so the b moon is moving away from you, it's also rotating downward toward the surface of c.
So if I landed on b, I'd rotate back down to the surface of c.

Trying to fly near the transition is extremely disorienting and nauseating. You don't have a horizon and your apparent horizon is moving relative to the stable surface.
Your eyes play tricks on you. You gotta look at the ground and not the sky.

This is the view where I am. The surface is rotating in front of me and the distance to the moon is getting larger so it's moving away from me, slowly.

 
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trilathon

trilathon
I had two suns like this on the way back from the centre...never thought owt about it apart from how 'lucky' I was to inexplicably shoot through the middle of them unscathed...
 

Major Klutz

Major Klutz
Ravenov said:
Still can't rep you, so have a <3 instead... ...
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I wish I could rep that screenshot. [up]

vanhelsing said:
Can someone help Cmdr Nutter out? He seems to be stuck inside a planet and is completely mass locked. :D
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Lol. I thought he lost his ship again but I just checked the end of his stream. Stuck in a planet and nearly out of fuel. I didn't bring any fuel limpets but I doubt anyone could get to him anyway.
 
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Maxen

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Major Klutz said:
I may try it. Waiting for timing with the motion of the moons.
What appears to happen is that you swap gravity sources, but you don't swap motion reference frames. So I could fall toward the other moon but would be moving relative to the moon I started on resulting in landing at >100m/s

The trouble I'm having is that when you're on the back side of the collision, so the b moon is moving away from you, it's also rotating downward toward the surface of c.
So if I landed on b, I'd rotate back down to the surface of c.


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I think thats what happened to me, I tried landing on 2C this morning, while I had 2B selected. i tried for a nice gentle landing and ended up accelerating into the surface and back to Colonia for a rebuy. Made it back in time to see the collision, from a very safe distance.[smile]
 

Major Klutz

Major Klutz
Maxen said:
I think thats what happened to me, I tried landing on 2C this morning, while I had 2B selected. i tried for a nice gentle landing and ended up accelerating into the surface and back to Colonia for a rebuy. Made it back in time to see the collision, from a very safe distance.[smile]
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It happened to me, but I managed to climb out of it and get back into SC. Video Clip. Take note of the location indicator in the bottom left of the hud.
I was trying to land on the c moon. Orbital cruise, drop altitude, glide mode, altimeter, all referred to the c moon but even though my speed indicator was zero and my vertical speed indicator was zero, I was clearly falling and moving laterally. My relative motion frame of reference was the b moon.

Lesson learned, for future reference, make sure you've selected the planet you're landing on.

Current status of the collision as of 18:25. They're still in contact over 3 hrs later.
 
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Zieman

Zieman
Major Klutz said:
Lesson learned, for future reference, make sure you've selected the planet you're landing on.
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In my case, that didn't help. I had the C moon selected most of the time*, but my frame of reference stayed more or less fully as moon B.
I'll add a rough video of it soon; altimeter, vertical speed indicator, attitude indicator and terrain sensor were very confused about which body they should be locked on. Maybe because the part of moon C where I was forced to try landing on was inside moon B at the time...

*selected moon B for a while, didn't change anything mentioned above.
 
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Stelcio

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Here's a 3.5h stream of the event from the site by Cmdr Bloody Nutter:

[video=youtube;dzWykFKpNKo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzWykFKpNKo[/video]

The good part starts around 2:30:00.
 

Major Klutz

Major Klutz
I need some sleep. Went to bed at 12:30 (my time) and logged back in at 3:30 am to join the party.
Video(s) will take a few days to edit. Lots of raw footage including some closeups of the overlap point as it moved.
 

Nutter

Nutter
Hi Commanders,

I managed to get free by switching to non-Horizions then Still having to fly outside of planet untill I was certain I was outside of it (Fuel Low) - Then jumped to a local system - Topped up the tanks and heading back to Colonia now, should be there in a few mins.

Thanks!

o7
 
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