Technically they do rotate relative to each other, although very slowly, as they are tidally locked to their parent planet, not to each other. But for the case in hand, the relative rotation is very small, so you should be fine.
Exploration - When worlds colide
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Technically they do rotate relative to each other, although very slowly, as they are tidally locked to their parent planet, not to each other. But for the case in hand, the relative rotation is very small, so you should be fine.
Hehe, that would be super-duper extra bonus.
TBH, I'm expecting game crash or absence of collision mesh for the 'other' moon.
That's why I'm doing it in solo mode, not wanting to possibly disrupt the instance for anyoe else.
A quick and dirty 2hr time lapse ... 9.05Mm away now at 18:39.
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I am on my way...how many hours from now are we thinking it's going to happen?
Game time for me is currently 17:38 Saturday 10/14
Game time for me is currently 17:38 Saturday 10/14
Found another pair of moons sharing almost the same orbit as eachother 1 neutronjump from colonia.
Unfortunately both are too small and the orbits are a bit to far apart to let them contact https://imgur.com/a/3f9JC.
Unfortunately both are too small and the orbits are a bit to far apart to let them contact https://imgur.com/a/3f9JC.
Approximately 19 hours now. Give or take several hours. See previous post here...
9.4Mm away now at 17:46
Update: Now at 8.85Mm @ 19:09. Since we're at 3 digits, we're counting down in 100th of a Mm (10Km) increments now.
7.453Mm remaining. It sure seems like it's gonna be here sooner than I thought.
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Just landed at Polo Harbour to sell off some data, and then buckyballing it on over in Fleetcomm
Good luck everyone - will be tuning in to watch any live streams.
Livestream up
I can't make any promises but I'll run it as long as I'm able.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3elRPqDdcU
I can't make any promises but I'll run it as long as I'm able.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3elRPqDdcU
I'm now a billionaire with 10 tagged planetary nebulas, and just lifted off. 6100 ly out.
Reading out it's current speed it closed 0.09Mm in 827 seconds (13.78 minutes).
So it's currently moving at 0.0065296 Mm per minute or ~6.5296 Km/min or 108.8 m/sec
From exactly 8.08Mm away at exactly 19:16:38, at that speed*, it still has 1141 minutes (~19 hrs) to go, to close the 7.453 Mm remaining until contact.
That's ~14:16 tomorrow (game time)
For me that's 7am tomorrow
I'm gonna take a break for a while and check back in a few hours.
* speed is not constant
That's ~0.39 Mm/hr which is much slower* than the average speed of ~0.42 Mm/hr
So it's currently moving at 0.0065296 Mm per minute or ~6.5296 Km/min or 108.8 m/sec
From exactly 8.08Mm away at exactly 19:16:38, at that speed*, it still has 1141 minutes (~19 hrs) to go, to close the 7.453 Mm remaining until contact.
That's ~14:16 tomorrow (game time)
For me that's 7am tomorrow
I'm gonna take a break for a while and check back in a few hours.
* speed is not constant
That's ~0.39 Mm/hr which is much slower* than the average speed of ~0.42 Mm/hr
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9am for me. I should be arriving in system within the hour. We need to friend or wing up or something
Send me a friend request. Commander name is Klutz
I can wing you in to where I am but I'm not sure this is the best spot.
Live Stream up on YouTube here ... https://youtu.be/Is_J5hfTzMs
Update: Taking the live stream down for a few hours. I'll post a link when I'm back online again.
I won't be live streaming the event since I'll be recording with shadowplay. You can't record locally and stream at the same time.
I'll post an edited video next week.
At the moment (20:35) it's quite dark on the surface of c. Turning the gamma up helps a bit.
Update: At 21:30 it's now right at 8.00Mm
Update: It's now 15 Oct in game at 00:15 am and the moon is 7.15Mm away. ~5.8Mm to go.
............ Still dark. Waiting for the moons to orbit out of the planets shadow.
Update: Checking the speed, it took 1257 seconds or 20.95 minutes to move 0.10Mm
So now it's moving at a slow 0.004773 Mm/minute
At that speed*, collision would be in 1184 minutes from 00:45:52, but it won't stay at that speed.
Now at 7.00Mm at 00:45 am. 5.653 Mm to go. Still dark, Waiting for the light to come back.
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I'm in system. Request sent
Sitting in Vigil...
It's now 9:00am my time / 1:00 in game - the start of the day for me! It's currently pitch black on 2c, so I won't start up my stream until it is at least light.
In the mean time, I'll start taking some times and see how things compare to yesterday...
In the mean time, I'll start taking some times and see how things compare to yesterday...
Ok..in the journal file, is the semi-major axis listed in meters?
Checking the speed a few minutes ago, it took 1257 seconds or 20.95 minutes to move 0.10Mm
So now it's moving at a slow 0.004773 Mm/minute
At that speed, collision would be in 1184 minutes from 00:45:52, but it won't stay at that speed.
It was at 0.006529 Mm per minute yesterday around 19:00. Still not clear to me why it does that when the orbital eccentricity of both planets is so close to zero.
Now at 6.88 Mm @01:11 am. Still dark, Waiting for the light to come back.
Curious if you get the same or similar numbers andrewg_oz. I'm still paranoid that my method is flawed and my numbers are way off.
So now it's moving at a slow 0.004773 Mm/minute
At that speed, collision would be in 1184 minutes from 00:45:52, but it won't stay at that speed.
It was at 0.006529 Mm per minute yesterday around 19:00. Still not clear to me why it does that when the orbital eccentricity of both planets is so close to zero.
Now at 6.88 Mm @01:11 am. Still dark, Waiting for the light to come back.
Curious if you get the same or similar numbers andrewg_oz. I'm still paranoid that my method is flawed and my numbers are way off.
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Yesterday I took 12 consecutive readings that indicated a speed of 0.00958Mm/min. Now it's more like what you're seeing. I've now taken nine consecutive 0.01Mm interval times and get about 0.00465Mm/min. i.e. the closing speed has more than halved!
At this rate it would take 24hrs to reach 0Mm. I'm hoping it hurries up. This time tomorrow I'll be at work
At this rate it would take 24hrs to reach 0Mm. I'm hoping it hurries up. This time tomorrow I'll be at work