Five planets, one barycenter

[marx]

I vaguely recall there having been some posts about such, but can't seem to find them. So, I came across five planets all orbiting the same barycenter, around a single class K star, in a mass code C system. I'll post the system name once I sell the data (will probably be at least a couple of weeks), but in the meantime, here's how they all look:

Album with all the planetary data can be found at https://imgur.com/a/h9MmHDs

Quite far from the star. Thanks to the distance and all having quite thin pure nitrogen atmospheres, they are all quite cold; the sixth planet out is actually considerably warmer, thanks to having a thick atmosphere (99.9% nitrogen, 0.07% methane, 1154.13 atm, 141 K.)
Pity that none of these are landable, but I think it's a cool find nonetheless.

 

[Pirin]

Cool find indeed. I have never seen such configuration before.

 

[disorganise]

Nice. I don't recall seeing even 4, so wow :O

 

[MattG]

Pretty sure it was CMDR Allitnil who posted the 5 bodies around 1 barycenter some time ago - until then I'd believed 4 was a hard limit in StellarForge. Been hunting for one ever since but no luck, so I'm hugely jealous .

Congrats


I wonder is 6 around 1 barycenter is possible...

 

[mpfj]

Strangely found a 4 body example just yesterday ...

Spoiler

But 5 is very impressive !!

 

[Jackie Silver]

Oh, that I should like to see.

 

[Satsuma]

Oh, that's neat! I'll have to go check that out.

 

[Orvidius]

Nice find! That's really cool.

 

[BaldEagle]

Nice find Commander

 

[marx]

Thanks! Even more rare than I thought? Sweet.
I forgot that there's an asteroid base that's not a big detour, so I should be able to get the system tagged and share it tomorrow, rather than weeks later (as I first wrote).

 

[Shinji Ikari]

I did get to find a 4 body system though one is a brown dwarf and they aren't in a neat staircase.

 

[hems303]

Nice find Rep+1 I've never had even a "sniff" of such a system off my own bat, always following in others footsteps. Looking forward to your "naming" post, I'll go have a look-see.
It's systems like these that cry out for the ED Orrery discussed back in the dim past.

Nice o7

 

[marx]

As promised, the system name: M36 Sector RI-T c3-5. It's roughly 4,200 ly South, going from the bubble towards the NGC 1931 nebula. Data's up on EDSM and EGO, although I couldn't get the orrery sorted yet - will try again later.

Also, a thought that occurred to me: it's interesting how different the planets look, despite their atmospheres, composition and type being exactly the same. I wonder what's going on there, and how the game might generate the non-landable barren worlds.

 

[Krunchie]

I've posted this one before. Five ringed ones. The view from the landable one must be fantastic.
Maybe someone can go there and post a few screenshots.

Floawns CW-N e6-1136

 

[Allitnil]

Here's the one I found:

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They aren't in a very tight joint orbit and surface shots aren't going to show much, but here's what the orbit lines look like from above / below:

Spoiler

 

[marx]

So mine's the only one with only planets in a neat "staircase" configuration? Nice.
I went back to look at the orbit lines (still can't get EGO working), they look quite interesting. Planets 1 and 2 orbit the barycenter quite closely, 1 is tidally locked to it. 3 orbits not far away, on a considerably more elliptic orbit, yet also tidally locked to the barycenter. 4 and 5 are farther away, with especially the latter being quite far from the rest, both on somewhat inclined orbits.

Here's a closer look at 1-3, with 4 also being visible, while 5 only shows up as its orbit line:

 

[Bartizan]

Great find.

 

[Leif_Erikson]

That's a great find. Found threes and fours but never this. Don't think I've found a terraformable world even if they orbit the habitable zone.

 

[Alkibiades]

Barycenter seems to be a hot topic these days.

 

[MattG]

Oh my. I’m going to need the name of that first system please Alkibiades, once you’ve tagged it. Wow.