Exploration - When worlds colide
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Only about a half hour late. Based on that collision time, and the previous collision time, the collision interval is ~134 days, 6 hours, 39 minutes (~134.277 days or ~193,359 minutes)
That puts the next collision at ~Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at ~4:41:00 am
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Hopefully I'll have better luck next time!
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[video=youtube_share;h3vJP4QuTr8]https://youtu.be/h3vJP4QuTr8[/video]
(Ugh, no idea why it's done that to the video... I'll sort it tomorrow, it's late!)
(Ugh, no idea why it's done that to the video... I'll sort it tomorrow, it's late!)
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Pretty sure peak collision is over and they are starting to move further apart now.
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Yes. I think so. Going to stay at this position for a bit.
1.36 Mm distance @ and before 0:16:00 IGT. Just switched to 1.37 Mm.
Gave it another shot and it spawned me in orbit! I went in to land again as close as I could, and when I got near the surface it was obvious that the planet was flying by under me rather than me flying over it. I started sliding along the surface, so I deployed my landing gear just before it clipped through, just before the shields went down. Now that everything was stable, I decided to go ahead and deploy the SRV...
So then I was flying away from my ship, through the plant at what I assume to be 155m/s or so. Unfortunately, the game still thinks that I'm sitting under the anaconda, even though at last check I was 800km away from it! I eventually clipped back above the surface for a bit in what must have been nearing low orbit. I went downstairs for a few, and when I came back up it looked like I had clipped through the other planet, or that I was close enough now that it was blocking all the light. Still can't fire thrusters or anything, but I did notice that "board ship" was highlighted as an option, so I tried it. The sound effects played, but no luck on being back in the annie. I took a bunch of "starman" selfies and eventually decided that the only thing I could do is log out again (almost dinner time, so daddy has to put his game away).
Sure enough, the servers don't want to allow re-spawning me at my last known location inside the moon, so I am locked out again. I've not received an update from support, so I assume that I was able to log back in because the moon had shifted enough that my last known position was safely in orbit, or that something timed out and I was just placed in orbit of the last known body.
Will post pics in a bit
So then I was flying away from my ship, through the plant at what I assume to be 155m/s or so. Unfortunately, the game still thinks that I'm sitting under the anaconda, even though at last check I was 800km away from it! I eventually clipped back above the surface for a bit in what must have been nearing low orbit. I went downstairs for a few, and when I came back up it looked like I had clipped through the other planet, or that I was close enough now that it was blocking all the light. Still can't fire thrusters or anything, but I did notice that "board ship" was highlighted as an option, so I tried it. The sound effects played, but no luck on being back in the annie. I took a bunch of "starman" selfies and eventually decided that the only thing I could do is log out again (almost dinner time, so daddy has to put his game away).
Sure enough, the servers don't want to allow re-spawning me at my last known location inside the moon, so I am locked out again. I've not received an update from support, so I assume that I was able to log back in because the moon had shifted enough that my last known position was safely in orbit, or that something timed out and I was just placed in orbit of the last known body.
Will post pics in a bit
4 hours, and they are still in contact.
If anyone is still watching when they finally separate, make a note of the time.
Update: 5 hours now and still in contact,
If anyone is still watching when they finally separate, make a note of the time.
Update: 5 hours now and still in contact,
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What's really fun is scrubbing through the livestreams timeline and watching them move!! This will be an amazing time lapse!
Separation @ 03:42...
Made it back and almost got right to the point of impact in the SLF and was able to hop to surface of the other moon in the SLF. Very cool, as it looked like I was flying into a big cave!
Next time I'm bringing my DBx instead of the conda
Made it back and almost got right to the point of impact in the SLF and was able to hop to surface of the other moon in the SLF. Very cool, as it looked like I was flying into a big cave!
Next time I'm bringing my DBx instead of the conda
Dang I missed it with 10 min. Wanted to get a closeup shot of it separating. Oh well.
Thanks guys for streams! Since I was too far to get there by myself, it was a real pleasure to watch several of them simultaneously. Better coverage than the olympic games! 
Thought I would chip in the end of my stream - going into the danger zone, then trying to escape, only to be stopped by a ridge.
https://youtu.be/MCJBOWF5emk?t=26378
After that, my ship was scraping along the incoming planet (though taking no damage except the couple of times I either tried to escape or turned off my thrusters) until the incoming planet passed (about 23:30).
At 23:48, my altimeter switched from being 23km above the surface of the incoming planet to being -1m, then 00:10:28 my ship popped to being stationary at 430m above the surface, and 00:45:32 it again switched momentarily to -1m then to 110m above the surface. There it stayed until I got home from work. Unfortunately during all of that time the ship was facing away from the planet.
I'll try to put together a timelapse of the videos I took.
Edit: a visualisation of the approximate path the planets took (with the netlog positions of my ship during the encounter):
https://jsfiddle.net/sba1r8o8/173/
https://youtu.be/MCJBOWF5emk?t=26378
After that, my ship was scraping along the incoming planet (though taking no damage except the couple of times I either tried to escape or turned off my thrusters) until the incoming planet passed (about 23:30).
At 23:48, my altimeter switched from being 23km above the surface of the incoming planet to being -1m, then 00:10:28 my ship popped to being stationary at 430m above the surface, and 00:45:32 it again switched momentarily to -1m then to 110m above the surface. There it stayed until I got home from work. Unfortunately during all of that time the ship was facing away from the planet.
I'll try to put together a timelapse of the videos I took.
Edit: a visualisation of the approximate path the planets took (with the netlog positions of my ship during the encounter):
https://jsfiddle.net/sba1r8o8/173/
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Servers down for 9 hours. Lucky the collision wasn't a few hours later.
TWitko
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out of curiosity .. does anybody know how this discovery (by original discoverer) happened ? Probably I'm noob as can't imagine those coliding bodies can be recognized from System map and its data.
Or it was just a lucky coincidence - the guy came just in the moment of colision or proximity ? Even then .. it means the pilot had to come very close to be able to see them and find what's going on. And those 2B a 2C are common icy bodies, quite far from arrival star .. which are mostly ignored during exploration (my practice) ... I even don't come close enough to be able to see them "in real" .. just check them on System map and fly away ...
thank you for any info
TW
Or it was just a lucky coincidence - the guy came just in the moment of colision or proximity ? Even then .. it means the pilot had to come very close to be able to see them and find what's going on. And those 2B a 2C are common icy bodies, quite far from arrival star .. which are mostly ignored during exploration (my practice) ... I even don't come close enough to be able to see them "in real" .. just check them on System map and fly away ...
thank you for any info
TW
I don't often scan icy moons, but sometimes I make the decision to scan everything in a system, or at least all landable bodies if I'm prospecting for materials.
Normally binary pairs show up at the same distance when you approach to scan, but he may have noticed from the system map that they aren't a binary pair and yet are at the same distance.
If you get close enough to scan those moons, you can also see their obit lines are very close together. (if you have orbit lines on, as I do)
The original discoverer was Hypermumm
Normally binary pairs show up at the same distance when you approach to scan, but he may have noticed from the system map that they aren't a binary pair and yet are at the same distance.
If you get close enough to scan those moons, you can also see their obit lines are very close together. (if you have orbit lines on, as I do)
The original discoverer was Hypermumm
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If we take the time between the last two collisions (~134 days, 6 hours, 39 minutes)
and subtract that from the previous collision on Oct 15@~15:23(IGT), we get Saturday, June 3, 2017 at ~8:44:00 am(IGT)
Update: I just heard from Hypermumm that the collision on June 3rd was at ~8:24 am IGT according to his screenshots.
That's within 20 minutes of the time between the last two collisions. (134 days, 6 hours, 59 minutes)
There have been 134+ days between the last three collisions.
Jun 3rd@08:24 + 134.291 days = Oct 15@15:23 + 134.277 days = Feb 26@22:02
22:02 on Feb 26 + 134.277 days (134D 6H 39M) is Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at ~4:41:00 am
The right answer is probably somewhere between 134.291 days and 134.277 days. (193,359 minutes - 193,379 minutes)
We'll know more on July 11 between 04:41 and 05:01
and subtract that from the previous collision on Oct 15@~15:23(IGT), we get Saturday, June 3, 2017 at ~8:44:00 am(IGT)
Update: I just heard from Hypermumm that the collision on June 3rd was at ~8:24 am IGT according to his screenshots.
That's within 20 minutes of the time between the last two collisions. (134 days, 6 hours, 59 minutes)
There have been 134+ days between the last three collisions.
Jun 3rd@08:24 + 134.291 days = Oct 15@15:23 + 134.277 days = Feb 26@22:02
22:02 on Feb 26 + 134.277 days (134D 6H 39M) is Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at ~4:41:00 am
The right answer is probably somewhere between 134.291 days and 134.277 days. (193,359 minutes - 193,379 minutes)
We'll know more on July 11 between 04:41 and 05:01
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