i'm looking for a relatively large list of names for plantes and solar systems, either original, or from other sci-fi sources, or from the EV games themselves, collected, in a list where i can instantly see them.
Is this possible? ANyone know of one?
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I found (url="http://"http://www.princeton.edu/~willman/planetary_systems/")this(/url) for a list of known solar systems with planets and other bodies of mass. You could do a (url="http://"http://www.google.com")google(/url) search for each individual system on that list to find the names of the planets.
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There are a number of resources available that list Star Trek and Star Wars systems... probably Babylon 5, too - do a Google search for those.
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You could just make a list yourself. (of EV planets I mean). It wouldn't be that hard, all you'd need is a pilot with a completed map.
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Originally posted by Mantaray:
**I found this for a list of known solar systems with planets and other bodies of mass.
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Argh! It overwhelms me with complex scientific terms! What in the heck is, for example, "Eccentricity"?
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Originally posted by General Cade Smart:
**Argh! It overwhelms me with complex scientific terms! What in the heck is, for example, "Eccentricity"?
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It is a measure of the non-circleness of the orbit.
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Originally posted by Russell Quintero:
**It is a measure of the non-circleness of the orbit.
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Specifically, it is the fraction c/a, where c is the distance between the center of the ellipse and a focus, and a is the length of the semimajor axis.
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Originally posted by Starkiller:
**Specifically, it is the fraction c/a, where c is the distance between the center of the ellipse and a focus, and a is the length of the semimajor axis.
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Right. This is why I hate astronomy. Ansvers are even more complex than questions.
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Originally posted by Russell Quintero:
**It is a measure of the non-circleness of the orbit.
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In plain English: how little the planet is a circle?
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Originally posted by General Cade Smart:
**In plain English: how little the planet is a circle?
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No, how much the planet's orbit is not a circle. For instance, a comet has a large eccentricity, while Mercury has a small one. A comet's orbit is very elongated, and Mercury gets sucked into nearly a circle.
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I was sifting through the bargain bin at a crappy little gift-store in San Diego when I happened across one of the most useful Plugin accessories I've ever come across: A planetsphere. It's just a couple of plastic disks, about 8 inches in diameter, fastened at the center by a rotating rivit. By spinning the rear disk, you can take a look at the layout of the stars above you at any specific time. Better yet, most of them are named on the thing. It's a fairly accurate map of our galaxy as seen from Earth and it only cost me 99 cents.
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Originally posted by AJ:
**I was sifting through the bargain bin at a crappy little gift-store in San Diego when I happened across one of the most useful Plugin accessories I've ever come across: A planetsphere. It's just a couple of plastic disks, about 8 inches in diameter, fastened at the center by a rotating rivit. By spinning the rear disk, you can take a look at the layout of the stars above you at any specific time. Better yet, most of them are named on the thing. It's a fairly accurate map of our galaxy as seen from Earth and it only cost me 99 cents.
-AJ
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And to think, I've had to scrape up what I could from the internet. Do you realize how hard it is to put on a 2-D map the positions of a 3-D universe while trying to keep stellar neighbors near each other? In some cases, I just gave up.
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Well, I came across a Java applet at (url="http://"http://www.solstation.com")http://www.solstation.com(/url) that was basically a rotatable 3D map of nearby known stars; it's pretty neat. I'd say to place them and keep relative positions distantly but in some ways accurate would be to pick an angle and adjust stars that are further in or out of the screen than others. But yes, it is really a big challenge, I agree.
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Originally posted by Firebird:
**Well, I came across a Java applet athttp://www.solstation.com that was basically a rotatable 3D map of nearby known stars; it's pretty neat. I'd say to place them and keep relative positions distantly but in some ways accurate would be to pick an angle and adjust stars that are further in or out of the screen than others. But yes, it is really a big challenge, I agree.
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That is actually the site I used. 
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Originally posted by Russell Quintero:
**No, how much the planet's orbit is not a circle. A comet's orbit is very elongated, and Mercury gets sucked into nearly a circle.
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Thanks for the explantion. How much of the planet is not a circle. Elongated? I give up. Astronomy seems to bring up new questions for each answer. :mad:
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Originally posted by General Cade Smart:
**Thanks for the explantion. How much of the planet is not a circle. Elongated? I give up. Astronomy seems to bring up new questions for each answer.:mad:
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No, not how much of the planet isn't a circle, how much it's orbit isn't a circle. For instance, everyone knows that Pluto has a funky orbit. That is described by its higher eccentricty and angle of declination. How non-sperical a planet is is caused by its rate of rotation.
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another interesting site: (url="http://"http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/")page of generators(/url). to to settings to find a planet name generator
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Originally posted by General Cade Smart:
How much of the planet is not a circle. Elongated? I give up. Astronomy seems to bring up new questions for each answer.:mad:
perhaps this will help: take a circle and stretch it a little in one direction (so it ends up kinda egg-shaped; namely, an ellipse). now measure two special "diameters": one where you stretched it (the longest it can possibly be), and one perpendicular to that one (the shortest it can possibly be). the ratio of these two lengths is the eccentricity of your ellipse.
when used in astronomy, the path of the orbit of the object in question (planet, star, whatever) is the ellipse above, so the eccentricity is the ratio of the greatest distance the (planet/star/whatever) gets from the center of its orbit to the least distance the (planet/star/whatever) gets from the center of its orbit
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