Horizons what is the largest planet on record you can currently land on?

Dirty Rascal

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Yeah, I'm talking actually make planet fall within in the games cuurent mechanics. I've come across a ringed world that is 25 earth masses. Larger then Neptune and <1/4> the size of Saturn.

Is there any thing bigger and where can I locate it?
 

varonica

varonica
Dirty Rascal said:
Yeah, I'm talking actually make planet fall within in the games cuurent mechanics. I've come across a ringed world that is 25 earth masses. Larger then Neptune and <1/4> the size of Saturn.

Is there any thing bigger and where can I locate it?
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Mass is not the same as size!

I have discovered an ice word over 19,000 klms in radius but only 2.9g, so large radius, small mass. On the other hand Achenar 3 is 15,700klm radius with 6.73G, 41 earth masses. That's the highest G landable planet I know. The largest radius planet at 24.404klm is CHROABS TI-S D4-58 4 but it is only a bit over 4G with nearly 59 earth masses.

Oh yes sorry edit to add link to list;

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/217068-Really-large-landable-planets-the-list
 
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Dirty Rascal

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So planet mass isn't important the radius is... according to that list this planet is 13th with 20,082KM radius. Thanks I have a new goal in elite... To find the largest planet!
 

varonica

varonica
Dirty Rascal said:
So planet mass isn't important the radius is... according to that list this planet is 13th with 20,082KM radius. Thanks I have a new goal in elite... To find the largest planet!
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I think the list hasn't been updated for a few weeks, my last find still hasn't been added to it but it's still a good guide!

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Although I wasn't the first to discover it I was the first to report it, and that's what counts really, you can find all sorts out there, but if you don't claim it at the time then it's up for grabs still. So CMDR Eros madeling's name will be on it always as first discoverer unfortunately. Oh well, I have found a few other similar sized ones out there quite a while back but never bothered to record them myself so it's swings and roundabout. So always remember if you find something unusual, even if anther CMDR's name is already on it, check the lists, there are lists for just about everything.
 
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Mike Reacher

Mike Reacher
Mass, size and gravity is a strange thing.
I had to go to a planet that was 2 earth sizes, but only .5 gravity. Aren't they all rock and other stuff?

Maybe it was hollow and full of Thargoids.:D
 
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Enrogue

Enrogue
Mike Reacher said:
Mass, size and gravity is a strange thing.
I had to go to a planet that was 2 earth sizes, but only .5 gravity. Aren't they all rock and other stuff?

Maybe it was hollow and full of Thargoids.:D
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Heh. Well, there are rocks of different density and the overall material composition (% of metals and type) of planets vary, therefrom the differences. Should be obvious, tbh :)
 

Enrogue

Enrogue
Well certainly not in the case Mike was wondering about. Unless I am already sleeping? He was wondering why planets of roughly the same size have different g's. That's mass.
 

HalloweenWeed

HalloweenWeed
Rocks drop to the bottom of lakes/oceans, do they not?
Ice floats in water, no?
That means rocks are denser than water, which in turn is denser than ice. That means rocky planets are more dense than planetary-size chunks of ice, or water-worlds - if the water is a significant portion of the mass.
 
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