new worlds, comming this summer?

I’m posting right after taking part on a discussion about the new planets that may come into our Solar System…
Apart from the weird names of the new planets, I think it’s good to refresh our view of what the Solar System is composed of :slight_smile: I also agree that “a dozen planets” is easier to say than “nine planets” :slight_smile: plus you can say “a dozen or so planets” to account for the other ones you don’t know if are plants or not :smiley:

Anyway, back to the topic…

I know this is not MojoWorld nor TG2, so i’m not asking for complete planets, but have you guys made some terrain with World-Machine that could be out of this world?
Could any of those be of one of the new planets that are coming to our Solar System this summer? :smiley:
What would Caronte look like? Or 2003 UB 313 ? :slight_smile:

Show’em here! :stuck_out_tongue:

This could be intresting project to do. I can get some decent photographs of these celestual bodies and people here could recreate them in world machine. I may want to do 1 or 2 later but at the moment i am busy with Faults and looking into ME DEM.

Ok hold the phone, how the heck can Charon be a planet or potental planet, it’s a fracking moon. It orbits around Pluto right? So does that not classify it as a Moon?

Why not just consider Pluto a Planetoid or is it to large to be a planetoid? Although i thought in order for a celestial body to be considered a planetoid it would have to be a minimum of 500km or so but i could be way off. I know i have notes on this stuff somewhere. :? These are Kupler Belt Objects, so objects like Pluto are considered Comets i would assume just not the types like Halley’s that travel around or Solar System.

Hey we can just work off of these artist renditions here i suppose.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/2006-16-d-print.jpg

Part of the discussion taking place among Planetary Scientist is the creation of a class of planets called plutons, which would be any object beyond the orbit of Neptune meeting size, orbit,and some other criteria. So we would have 8 classic planets, and a potentially large number of Plutons. I think the phrase “Pluton” is going to be a stumbling block for grade schoolkids for years to come, if they adopt it, we will have planet earth, planet mars, and pluton pluto. Its like naming your child James James. :?
Charon will become a double planet, or, err, a double pluton, with pluton pluto, so you get pluton charon pluto,or pluton charon pluto pluton, pluton(squared) charon pluto pluton, starting to sound like Latin?
Lets just hope they resist the urge to adopt Xena as a name for one of the candidates, as the only thing about that show that sticks in my head, and kids now a days only know of the show, is the number of bathes Xena took with her sidekick :lol: SeerBlue

I heard of the pluton term afew years back. Another term for Plutons. Bodies of magma that solidify underground before they reach the surface of the earth are called plutons.

yeah, well in portuguese, “Pluton” will most likely be translated to a word that is eaxctly the same as “Pluto”, du to a lack of alternatives, I think. So that will be a nice confusion!
But in a way I kind of agree with them forming a planetary system, because the baricentre of them is outside Pluto. That means that we see them swirling arround each other instead of one orbiting around the other…

But still I’d expect the surface to be solid rock, but I really don’t know how it could be… Perhaps some light ash around as well…

Well i thought i’d try at some alien terrain, probably could do some crater scapes later on. I probably want to render this sometime as well.

http://www.ashundar.com/datas/users/1941-alien%20scape.zip

Maybe like this:
New World 1

or this:
New World 2

Sethren made a nice not-too-mountainous barren land, that I like… but I don’t know exactly how it was meant to be, and I tweaked the vertical scale of the .TMD a bit…
From your approach I like the first terrain better, though I prefer the atmosphere of the second one… Stil I like to imagine that mountain that appears to have a crater in it as an impact crater!.. :slight_smile:

It’s curious, this thing… I started this topic, mostly to see what different approachs there would be to terrain modelling of an “alien environment”… From my previous expectations, I was counting on a it to be more frequent to have over-mountainous terrains, with lots of vertical rock spikes comming out of the ground. It’s interesting that what we see from images of Venus, Mars, Moon, even rocky planets tend to be smoother, and less spikey than most típical imaginary scenes we see on the net… I was curious to test this, and see what would be the common imagination here :slight_smile:

I have a feeling palnets with atmosphere will tend to be less spikey… But also planets without any atmosphere will tend to be filled with craters… Spikes are something rather fragile, that is hard to keep intact during milenia…

But hey, don’t go by what I say… I also think that images the from Titan look computer generated… so even with atmosphere, and with methane lakes, there can be some odd distribution of lakes, holes and mountains on a terrain! :slight_smile: