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Minor Outer Solar System Bodies
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Wednesday, 26.03.2014, 21:43 | Message # 1 |
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| This thread is for discussing minor bodies (read: anything besides the four major planets and their moons) in the outer Solar system, with the exception of comets which are discussed here.
There were two big discoveries announced today in the realm of the outer Solar system.
First up is the discovery of a new inner Oort cloud object, only the second one ever discovered (the first being Sedna).
http://www.space.com/25218-d....ge.html
Here it is for SE. Add the script to the planet catalog of your choice (KuiperBelt.sc is best).
Code Asteroid "2012 VP113"
{
ParentBody "Sol"
AsterType "Centaur"
Radius 320
Albedo 0.1
AbsMagn 4.1
SlopeParam 0.15
Orbit
{
Epoch 2456800.5
MeanMotion 0.0002149
SemiMajorAxis 276.0078196
Eccentricity 0.7106887
Inclination 24.01461
AscendingNode 90.89192
ArgOfPericenter 291.14923
MeanAnomaly 3.066
}
}
Second, and perhaps more significant, is the announcement of rings discovered around Chariklo, the largest known centaur. The structure of the rings suggests that Chariklo has at least one moon.
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1410/
http://www.space.com/25225-asteroid-rings-discovery-video-images.html
Here it is for SE. Overwrite the existing script in KuiperBeltSmall.sc with the script below (if you want to go the extra step, move the entire entry to KuiperBelt.sc which is a more suitable home). Then, download the rings texture to your textures/planets folder.
Code Asteroid "Chariklo/(10199) Chariklo"
{
ParentBody "Sol"
AsterType "Centaur"
Radius 129.3
Albedo 0.06
Color ( 0.710 0.631 0.604 )
AbsMagn 6.6
SlopeParam 0.15
Orbit
{
Epoch 2456401
MeanMotion 0.015787
SemiMajorAxis 15.7375
Eccentricity 0.170708
Inclination 23.4067
AscendingNode 300.392
ArgOfPericenter 241.399
MeanAnomaly 54.0798
}
Rings
{
Texture "chariklo_rings.*"
InnerRadius 390
OuterRadius 409
}
}
Rings texture download
EDIT: For some reason it seems to direct to a Russian download page rather than English (YandexDisk has been overhauled recently, and for the worse in my opinion). Just click the button that says Скачать
EDIT 2: There's also a language selector in the bottom-right 
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Edited by HarbingerDawn - Wednesday, 26.03.2014, 23:19 |
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| FastFourierTransform | Date: Wednesday, 26.03.2014, 22:48 | Message # 2 |
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| Ringed asteroids? Nature is always far away from expectations. When on SE?
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Wednesday, 26.03.2014, 23:09 | Message # 3 |
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| Quote FastFourierTransform (  ) When on SE?
I just added this one to SE, and I'm sure SpaceEngineer will add ringed asteroids to SE soon (though they would have to be very rare).
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Edited by HarbingerDawn - Wednesday, 26.03.2014, 23:09 |
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| DeathStar | Date: Wednesday, 26.03.2014, 23:59 | Message # 4 |
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| I've always been fascinated by the outer Solar system, so I am glad it has a seperate thread. I imagine asteroids could have rings only if they are very massive.
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| phenomenalx | Date: Saturday, 29.03.2014, 16:10 | Message # 5 |
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| Where can I find it? I'm searching 11019, Chariklo's number, in the object search, but it's saying "Object not found". I've placed the code where you told us to place it. (Move it from KuiperBeltSmall to KuiperBelt)
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 29.03.2014, 17:15 | Message # 6 |
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| phenomenalx, simply type in "Chariklo", or look at the very top of the list - (11019) Chariklo is among the first entries
In SE, minor planet numbers are in parentheses, I'm not sure why but that's how it's done. And the planet script above contains the name of the object, so you know from that exactly how to find it:
"Chariklo/(10199) Chariklo"
Different names for an object are separated by slashes.
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| phenomenalx | Date: Sunday, 30.03.2014, 15:26 | Message # 7 |
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| Ah yes, it shows up now. Thank you
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| Voekoevaka | Date: Monday, 31.03.2014, 09:41 | Message # 8 |
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| Wow ! The rings shadows makes the soil clearer...
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| Betelgeuze | Date: Monday, 28.04.2014, 11:50 | Message # 9 |
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| Nice asteroid rings 
you can make stars/blackholes/netornstars ring
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| Destructor1701 | Date: Monday, 28.04.2014, 17:21 | Message # 10 |
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| Interesting idea!
I once tried to add aurora to a star, hoping that would make for some interesting-looking prominence-type features, given the right settings.
I couldn't get it to work, though.
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| RockoRocks | Date: Monday, 28.04.2014, 17:31 | Message # 11 |
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| Quote Betelgeuze ( ) you can make stars/blackholes/netornstars ring
Although addings rings around a black hole or neutron star may not be very realistic (from what I know), it might look really cool. Well, you can't add rings around the star itself but perhaps you can make a planet around that star/black hole/neutron star with a Semi-Major axis of 0, and then you give that planet rings that appear outside of the star so that it looks like the star has rings.
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| therealprincebowserkoopaj | Date: Tuesday, 25.11.2014, 00:12 | Message # 12 |
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| so just thinking about that new dwarf world discovered in the outer solar system 2012 vp113 and when it will be added it seems like a cool body man the sun can sure hold a lot of stuff in orbit
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| cirocirociro03 | Date: Sunday, 27.11.2016, 08:58 | Message # 13 |
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| and provided an update to the 0980 version? 
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