Exploration - When worlds colide

Major Klutz

Major Klutz
I found my previous post from when the moons were 0.15ls away. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...orlds-colide?p=6018455&viewfull=1#post6018455
That was at around 10/10/2017, 11:11 PM. Collision was within a few minutes of a post at 15/10/2017, 6:44 AM
That's ~4 days, 19 hours from 0.15 Ls

hoomanbean said:
do you have any suggestions on how to make sure it is directly above because just eyeing it isn't very accurate
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Not really. You can measure an angle using the hud. Eyeballing is probably close enough. They won't collide at that point anyway since they are approaching from an angle.
 
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Major Klutz

Major Klutz
OK. Let's see now .....
If the distance is 0.13Ls at 22:07:40 today ...

0.13ls equals 38973.02 km.
2b has a radius of 1,347 km.
So you're 37626.02 km from the surface or 0.12550689317 Ls, or 37.62602 Mm away (+/- 0.005 Ls)

Based on my previously established approach speed of ~0.423599 Mm/hr (~117m/s)
37.62602 Mm divided by 0.423599 Mm/hr is 88.8246 hours or 3.70 days from ~22:07:40 today.

If my date and time math is right, that's Monday, February 26, 2018 at 14:56:52 (+/- 3.5 hours)
0.01ls is ~2.997925 Mm or ~ 7.08 hours (at average speed)
 
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Major Klutz

Major Klutz
hoomanbean said:
we will be able to get an even more accurate time once the distance turns into Mm for obvious reasons
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Yes. We'll run the numbers again when that happens.
Did you get that distance of 0.13ls at the exact time it clicked over to 0.13 from 0.14? If not it could be rounded off anywhere in between ~0.135 and 0.126

0.01ls is ~2.997925 Mm or ~ 7.19 hours so it could be off by 7.19 hours
Not to mention the variable speed which can make the approach faster or slower over the last few hours depending on where they are in their orbit.
 
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hoomanbean

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i will post the distance of 2b from the surface of 2c when the distance reaches Mm so you will be able to get an even more accurate time because 0.01 Ls takes multiple hours
 

hoomanbean

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Major Klutz said:
Yes. We'll run the numbers again when that happens.
Did you get that distance of 0.13ls at the exact time it clicked over to 0.13 from 0.14? If not it could be anywhere in between ~0.135 and 0.126

0.01ls is ~2.997925 Mm or ~ 7.19 hours
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no i didn't i will just wait here and let you know when it turns to 0.12 Ls

actually i may not be able to wait here for that long but i will let you know when it reaches Mm
 

Major Klutz

Major Klutz
When I was doing this last time I used shadow play and recorded several hours while parked where I could see the other moon and my ships clock at the same time. Then I could go back to the video to see the time it clicked over.
In any case, the difference couldn't be more than 7.19 hours so I think we're still looking at sometime between Monday morning and Monday evening.
 
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hoomanbean

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i have an idea that in theory could work if i get in the middle of each of them the measurement will be in Mm so if i measure the distance from c when the distance to b changes to Mm do you think that could work?
 

Numenor1379

Numenor1379
Hmmm, if I finish the stripdown and rebuild of my Anaconda tonight I should be able to make it. Or I can just deal with doing an extra 130 jumps and buckyball it out in my AspX immediately. It's roughly 468 jumps in my Asp, so what... 8h of pure jumping?
 
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