Oolite Bulletins

PhantorGorth wrote:

The Alpha, Beta idea is ok except for that the "System Name" is really the main planet name. This is evidenced by the planet descriptions. E.g "The world Leleer is very noted for ..." and "The planet Rabedira is well known for ...", etc.

Thargoid wrote:

@DeathKnyte - the only item to comment there is that in the game the moons aren't linked to planets - they are essentially free-floating entities of their own. Hence naming them in relation to planets doesn't make much sense, and indeed may not be doable at all as they may be very far apart. Hence I wanted to keep their naming distinct.

Thargoid wrote:

I don't like the idea of "randomly" named planets - it makes more sense to me to have them sequentially named. As to what their "local" names are, I'll leave that to the players imagination. Moons of course are a different matter, but as they aren't linked to planets (explicitly) then they should be self-contained in terms of naming I think.

DeathKnyte wrote:

Hiya,
[...]
Suppose you enter (or are in) the Tibedied system...

Main planet (with the station) = Tibedied or Tibedied Prime
First planet closest to the star = Tibedied I
Second planet from the star = Tibedied II
Third planet from the star = Tibedied III
Fourth planet from the star = Tibedied IV
So you certainly get the idea, and can go up to how many planets you have in the system.
[...]

Kasero wrote:

Tibedied Prime (Tibedied alone would not be wise, as it is already the name of the sun)

Commander McLane wrote:

Kasero wrote:

Tibedied Prime (Tibedied alone would not be wise, as it is already the name of the sun)

No, it's the name of the planet. The suns don't have names in Elite/Oolite.

The standard for naming exoplanets is an extension of the one used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog (WMC) for multiple-star systems. This section will therefore start by briefly discussing the WMC standard, which has been adopted by the International Astronomical Union. Under that standard, the brightest member of a system receives the letter "A." Distinct components not contained within "A" are labeled "B", "C", etc. Sub-components are designated by one or more suffixes with the primary label, starting with lowercase letters for the 2nd hierarchical level and then numbers for the 3rd. For example, if there is a triple star system in which two stars orbit each other closely while a third star is in a more distant orbit, the two closely orbiting stars would be considered a component with two subcomponents. They would receive the designations Aa and Ab, while the third star would receive the designation B. (Note that, for historical reasons, this standard is not always strictly followed. For example, the three members of the Alpha Centauri triple star system are conventionally referred to as Alpha Centauri A, B and C while the formal standard would give their designations as Alpha Centauri Aa, Ab and B respectively.)

Following an extension of the above standard, an exoplanet's name is normally formed by taking the name of its parent star and adding a lowercase letter. The first planet discovered in a system is given the designation "b" and later planets are given subsequent letters. If several planets in the same system are discovered at the same time, the closest one to the star gets the next letter, followed by the other planets in order of orbital size.

For instance, in the 55 Cancri system the first planet – 55 Cancri b – was discovered in 1996; two additional farther planets were simultaneously discovered in 2002 with the nearest to the star being named 55 Cancri c and the other 55 Cancri d; a fourth planet was claimed (its existence was later disputed) in 2004 and named 55 Cancri e despite lying closer to the star than 55 Cancri b; and the most recently discovered planet, in 2007, was named 55 Cancri f despite lying between 55 Cancri c and 55 Cancri d. As of April 2012 the highest letter in use is "j", for the unconfirmed planet HD 10180 j (HD 10180 h is the confirmed planet with the highest letter).

If a planet orbits one member of a binary star system, then an uppercase letter for the star will be followed by a lowercase letter for the planet. Examples are 16 Cygni Bb and HD 178911 Bb. Planets orbiting the primary or "A" star should have 'Ab' after the name of the system, as in HD 41004 Ab. However, the "A" is sometimes omitted; for example the first planet discovered around the primary star of the Tau Boötis binary system is usually called simply Tau Boötis b.

If the parent star is a single star, then it may still be regarded as having an "A" designation, though the "A" is not normally written. The first exoplanet found to be orbiting such a star could then be regarded as a secondary sub-component that should be given the suffix "Ab." For example, 51 Peg Aa is the host star in the system 51 Peg; and the first exoplanet is then 51 Peg Ab. Since most exoplanets are in single star systems, the implicit "A" designation was simply dropped, leaving the exoplanet name with the lower-case letter only: 51 Peg b.

A few exoplanets have been given names that do not conform to the above standard. For example, the planets that orbit the pulsar PSR 1257 are often referred to with capital rather than lowercase letters. Also, the underlying name of the star system itself can follow several different systems. In fact, some stars (such as Kepler-11) have only received their names due to their inclusion in planet-search programs, previously only being referred to by their celestial coordinates.

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Thargoid wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

Kasero wrote:

Tibedied Prime (Tibedied alone would not be wise, as it is already the name of the sun)

No, it's the name of the planet. The suns don't have names in Elite/Oolite.

Arguably nor do planets in Elite/Oolite, it's the systems that are named. But the names are used fairly interchangably as in vanilla Oolite and Elite there is only one planet, main station and sun per system so it doesn't matter.

The planet Esbiza is most famous for its vast rain forests.

            "%H",
            "The planet %H",
            "The world %H",
            "This planet",
            "This world"

Thargoid wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

Kasero wrote:

Tibedied Prime (Tibedied alone would not be wise, as it is already the name of the sun)

No, it's the name of the planet. The suns don't have names in Elite/Oolite.

Arguably nor do planets in Elite/Oolite, it's the systems that are named. But the names are used fairly interchangably as in vanilla Oolite and Elite there is only one planet, main station and sun per system so it doesn't matter.

Manual wrote:

You begin your career, your ship equipped with a single forward-firing pulse laser, 3 homing missiles, 7 light years of fuel, and the sum of 100 Credits (CR), ready to embark from a space station in orbit around the planet Lave.

Manual wrote:

Pilot licences are issued only at the planet Lave,

Manual wrote:

6 invokes a planetary status card.