Tight Orbits

[Kiffin Rockwell]

I have wondered at how close some of the objects are that we run across - stars and planets so close they are almost touching, for example.

Maybe I was wrong!~

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/health/planet-orbits-three-suns/index.html

 

[iain666]

It's only got two stars in game (I've not got a system map, so can't see if it has a gas giant similar to the discovered one).

 

[Jackie Silver]

Heh, I'll have a look at that system later.

As far as close-orbiting things go there's a point at which satellites will break up due to tidal forces, known as the Roche limit. It's not as big a problem for stars as it is for planets and moons. There certainly used to be lots of moons in Elite which were blatantly inside that limit but a while back FD patched a lot of it out.

(eta)

At present there's just the two stars in the system, no asteroids or planets. FD have added things before when RL data turned up, so you never know.