Odd orbit line, maybe?

[Rooster Podunk]

Working my way back in the from the edge I came across this C3GG with 8 hmc moons and decided to map them. Upon approach to the GG I noticed this creep over the horizon as I approached. I'm at a loss as to what it is. Orbit line? Wobble line? Never seen one disappear into a planet before.

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[Hawk of Battle]

Looks like a barycenter line, maybe? A very, very small one. Is the GG in binary with another body?

 

[Sapyx]

Looks like a barycenter line, maybe? A very, very small one. Is the GG in binary with another body?

Would be my guess, too. Any smaller, and that binary-planet system would devolve into a planet-and-moon system.

 

[Rooster Podunk]

Thanks for the replies. It has 8 HMC moons and it does has another HMC binary. Let me go grab the mass of that last HMC. Back in a few to edit and add here.

Here are the numbers...

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Yes, the body merely "wobbles" , quite a few bodies have this. it just looks super weird if you're unaware of it, especially if the resulting line is small enough to intersect that way.

 

[Orvidius]

Yep, that's its orbit around the common barycenter with that HMC in binary. As Sapyx pointed out, it looks like it's really close to the limit before that would be considered a moon, rather than a binary planet. So you can only see a portion of the orbit protruding from the surface.

 

[Rooster Podunk]

Thanks all. I was hoping I discovered Rax, or where the Thargoid queen bee lives, or a burger joint weeks away from home.