Mapping Sol

[Loser]

Look here.

Mercury

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the eighth largest. Mercury is smaller in diameter than Ganymede and Titan but more massive.

Asteriods

The total mass of all the asteroids is less than that of the Moon.

Ceres is not as large or larger than Pluto. It is just barely large enough to have been rendered spherical and close enough to earth to have been clearly seen long enough ago for them to have originally thought it to be a planet. It has a raduis of 466 km.

Jupiter

Jupiter has four large moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Calisto. All except Io should be Ice. All Ice moons are believed to have a rocky core, but are icy on the surface (even Gas Giants have a rocky core).

Jupiter has no mid-sized moons.

Saturn

Saturn has one large moon, Titan. Titan has a radius of 2,575 km.

Titan is about half water ice and half rocky material. It is probably differentiated into several layers with a 3400 km rocky center surrounded by several layers composed of different crystal forms of ice....
It is composed primarily of molecular nitrogen (as is Earth's) with no more than 6% argon and a few percent methane.

Saturn also has five mid-sized moons between 260 km and 765 km in radius.

Uranus

Uranus' atmosphere is about 83% hydrogen, 15% helium and 2% methane....
Uranus' blue color is the result of absorption of red light by methane in the upper atmosphere.

Uranus has four mis-sezed moons from 236 km to 789 km radius, I do not think they'd even qualify as Tiny.

Neptune

Neptune's composition is probably similar to Uranus': various "ices" and rock with about 15% hydrogen and a little helium. Like Uranus, but unlike Jupiter and Saturn, it may not have a distinct internal layering but rather to be more or less uniform in composition. But there is most likely a small core (about the mass of the Earth) of rocky material. Its atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium with a small amount of methane.

Neptune has one large moon, Triton, which is icy. It also has one mid-sized moon, Proteus, with a radius of 209 km.

[kalthalior]

Good table of moons, who discovered and when, distance from planet, size:
Moons Table

Just a suggestion, but I would dispense with anything under 1500 km in diameter, call anything between 1500-2499 km tiny moons, anything over 2500 small, and over 4500 medium (if such a thing exists, don't recall).

Moon(E), Europa(J), Triton(N) = small, Callisto(J), Ganymede(J) and Titan(S) = Medium, and Io(J), Rhea(S), Oberon(U) and Titania(U) = tiny for a total of 10 moons in the Sol system. You might add Iapetus (S) to the tiny list as well.

[ August 14, 2003, 17:16: Message edited by: kalthalior ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

maybe not moons for se4 purposes, but asteriods orbit the sun and moons orbit planets, so they can't be asteriods. micro-moons?

[ZeroAdunn]

Or, you could make a map of the sol system, with systems being planetary orbitals, each one contains one planet at the center of the map (like earth) and various moons spread out around it on the system map, then warp points could connect the various systems...

Actually, I might just do that.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

could even have it more to scale, with jupiter the size of a sphereworld.

[Stone Mill]

Originally posted by Lord Kodos:
The idea of this project is to make it vanilla, so it can be used with base SEIV maps. Sorry Fyron ^__^.

And how will we represent the Oort Cloud? And I say put a asteroid belt on Jupiter to represent its many moons.

Lord Kodos- I think this is a great endeavor and I look forward to using your map. I have often toyed with this very idea.

In fact, I think I have a very cool use for it... depending on how it shapes up!

[Lord Kodos]

Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
Or, you could make a map of the sol system, with systems being planetary orbitals, each one contains one planet at the center of the map (like earth) and various moons spread out around it on the system map, then warp points could connect the various systems...

Actually, I might just do that.

I once toyed around with the idea for a Mobile Suit Gundam mod, which I decided to work on at least an hour a week. In any event, thats how I more or less decided to do it. Each "system" would have been a Side(for you uninitiateds, that means a cluster of Space Colonies) and one System would be the Earth, and another the Moon.

Of course I hit a few snags. For one thing, I dont remember how many colonies are in a Side, I think it was like 40-60, and furthermore, I forget how many Sides there are. I know Side Three was farthest from the sun. Of course IIRC each Side was in one of the lagrange points.

In any event, back on subject, yeah this would be cool.

Jupiter should NOT be a Sphereworld, we are sticking to basic SEIV classifications really, so it should be a huge planet.

The idea, Zero, is to make a map that is a template for use in other maps, but not to make a map that can be used on its own.

Unless you want a Sudden Death one system map with only one planet of any real value! ^__^