Fastest orbit?

Found a moon with an 87second orbital period. Anyone seen faster? :)

[video=youtube;NHD1lK6mFGY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHD1lK6mFGY[/video]

Location: Mitterand Hollow in the Epsilon Indi system.
 
That's a classic tourist spot that I showed my friends when they first started playing. I still don't understand why that moon hasn't been shattered by tidal forces yet.
 
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Nice find. I don't know whether or not it's the fastest one that has been found, but I enjoyed watching the video either way :)
 
It is extremely unlikely that there is anything that orbits faster than Mitterand Hollow. FD have admitted that they accidentally hard coded this with the wrong data so that it turns out so fast. Though they know it is a bug, it has been decided to leave it the way it is for not. I certainly hope it remains the way it is.

edit - found it:
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As for Mitterand's Hollow that was a manually added body with some incorrect overrides - we can't blame Stellar Forge for that one!


Michael

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I'll leave it in there (as it was probably my mistake) until I'm overruled :)

Michael
 
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It is, unfortunately, a bug. An object at the height of Mitterand Hollow, orbiting a planet with the mass of New Africa, should go around in at least 90 minutes, not 90 seconds.

What I suspect has happened is that old data from the FE2 system map (the layout of the Epsilon Indi system is a legacy from the previous Elite games), where everything was measured in AU, has been copied directly into ED, where everything is measured in Ls. The game is therefore trying to calculate the orbital parameters of a moon that's 500 times closer than it should be. A moon that close to the planet would actually be orbiting inside the planet, and the game knows that's impossible, so it's parked the moon at the minimum allowed distance for a moon (just outside the Roche Limit) but kept the rest of the orbital parameters the same - such as the ludicrously short period length and resultantly high orbital speed.

If you want to find a procedurally-generated planet with a similar orbital period, you'll have to try to find a planet that's orbiting real, real close to a black hole. I've explored dozens of black hole systems and never found a planet that close yet. Such planets are either impossible or really, really improbable.
 
If you want to find a procedurally-generated planet with a similar orbital period, you'll have to try to find a planet that's orbiting real, real close to a black hole. I've explored dozens of black hole systems and never found a planet that close yet. Such planets are either impossible or really, really improbable.
And very brief. It's likely they would be very quickly torn apart.
 
It's certainly worth a visit, I made a little video also... Secret to landing is to let the moon hit you in supercruise, trying to chase after it is quite hilarious hehe :D

[video=youtube_share;zd_7v0p-Q_A]https://youtu.be/zd_7v0p-Q_A[/video]
 
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This moon does prove without the shadow of a doubt that E : D DOES have moving planets in orbits. For all the naysayers and doubters alike.

I never said about realistic orbits though. ;)
 
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