Oolite Bulletins

One sun, one planet - do you think these people used to play Elite?

http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virgi ... epler6.htm

Well that was a wasted 1/2 hour.

One could probably use those different orbits in fiction. Maybe you've crashed on a planet with an egg shaped orbit. Everything is lush and green, but suddenly all life dies or retracts into the ground as the toasting summer arrives. You'd better find one way or another to avoid being barbecued.

If you start the planet in the middle of the sun and give it a little bit of motion it gets fired across the galaxy at relativistic speed.

I can't help it, i'm a natural tester, i'm good at breaking things

That was fun. The fastest I managed was 7376 km/s.

Lucidor wrote:

Well that was a wasted 1/2 hour.

One could probably use those different orbits in fiction. Maybe you've crashed on a planet with an egg shaped orbit. Everything is lush and green, but suddenly all life dies or retracts into the ground as the toasting summer arrives. You'd better find one way or another to avoid being barbecued.

Brian Aldiss's Helliconia trilogy – Spring, Summer and Winter – is a fantastic exploration of the ecology of a planet in a loose binary system, where the world orbits around a dwarf star, which in turn runs in an elliptical orbit around a massive blue-white supergiant. The planet swings from deep frozen winter to intense more-than-tropical heat and back again over several thousand years.

Disembodied wrote:

Brian Aldiss's Helliconia trilogy – Spring, Summer and Winter – is a fantastic exploration of the ecology of a planet in a loose binary system, where the world orbits around a dwarf star, which in turn runs in an elliptical orbit around a massive blue-white supergiant. The planet swings from deep frozen winter to intense more-than-tropical heat and back again over several thousand years.

Yeah, one of my favourite trilogies!


See more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helliconia

yeah, i gaind orbit first try!