new moon orbits Pluto

[Tegmine]

All this fuss, and Pluto still isn't considered a "proper" planet?

-M-

[Hungry4info]

A planet must:

1) Orbit a star.
2) Have sufficient mass to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium.
3) Gravitationally dominate the neighbourhood around its orbit.

The number of moons is irrelevant. You may as well ask why the sun isn't considered a planet based on the criteria of number of orbiting bodies.

[W0RLDBUILDER]

Guys, let's not start a flame war. We all know it's a planet anyway. Anyway, about the moon, I already have a mesh in the works. Of course it's fictional, we know next to nothing about P4's shape (or that of Nix or Hydra, for that matter).

[john Van Vliet]

a for fun test

a short vid 720p
http://youtu.be/oQSSr1anEf8


no flaming Pluto is not a planet
i never liked it as one even when i was a young kid in the 70's to 80's
wrong orbit and wrong tilt not even in the same plane as the rest of the solar system


Blended 2.58 has a "rock" plugin built in ( not used for the above )
that makes a few different types including "asteroids"

the above was done with the LOLA/MOLA plugin

[Cham]

John,

what about giving the model itself here, so we can try it ? (high res, please).

EDIT : According to your YouTube video, there's a nasty line visible on the model, and even a hole on a pole ?

[ajtribick]

What bugged me about Pluto was that it became pretty clear that it was part of the Kuiper Belt, which going by historical precedent implies "not a planet". Orbital inclination was weird but didn't particularly bug me. These days of course we have the Upsilon Andromedae system with a mutual inclination of 30 degrees between the second and third gas giants, which kind of throws the inclination argument for planethood well out of the window...

[john Van Vliet]

Cham
i could but it is only a testing / just having fun mesh
and i have two right now


still learning my way around blender 2.58

i guess i could go back to 2.49 for a bit

[Tegmine]

Don't get me wrong. I laugh at the humor I find in it. I'm ok with calling it a dwarf planet. I think it will be really neat to see what New Horizons reveals about Pluto and its moons.

-M-

PS-like the work on the models!

[ajtribick]

...and another one!

NASA - Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto

[H2SO4]

...and another one!

NASA - Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto

Ha, you're quick. I came to post the same thing

[john Van Vliet]

i was just about to post a link from nasa.gov
a few px. in a shot for now
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6667 ... 1232ay.jpg

but don't go looking for a spice bsp
the plu22.bsp is for

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Summary for: plu022.bsp
 
Bodies: EARTH BARYCENTER (3)  EARTH (399)           HYDRA (903)
        PLUTO BARYCENTER (9)  CHARON (901)          904
        SUN (10)              NIX (902)             PLUTO (999)
        Start of Interval (ET)              End of Interval (ET)
        -----------------------------       -----------------------------
        1964 DEC 07 00:00:41.183            2099 DEC 29 00:01:07.183
 

[Tegmine]

Can anyone say "overcompensation?"

-M-

[symaski62]

http://www.seti.org/hubble-discovers-fifth-moon

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... s/2012/32/

[Tegmine]

This will be neat when New Horizons gets there...instead of 2 Kuiper Belt objects, we get to see 6. Not a full sampling of what such objects look like, but it's something.

-M-

[Limax7]

So any orbit to P5 moon ?