| Original submission for Pyramus and Thisbe | ||
| Original submission, by CMDR Marx [2022-11-22 14:57:04] | ||
| DISCOVERER | ||
| → | Eahlstan | |
| NAME | ||
| → | Pyramus and Thisbe | |
| SYSTEMNAME | ||
| → | Phrooe Flye CA-K b40-5 | |
| CATEGORY | ||
| → | Sights and Scenery | |
| CATEGORY 2 | ||
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| REGION | ||
| → | Perseus Arm | |
| LATITUDE | ||
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| LONGITUDE | ||
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| CALLSIGN | ||
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| SUMMARY | ||
| → | A rare binary combination: a large ringed landable body and a much smaller planet orbit a barycenter that's only slightly beyond the core of the large one. | |
| DESCRIPTION | ||
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| → | This system houses a rare binary combination: a large ringed landable body ("Stan") and a much smaller planet ("Fly") orbit a barycenter that's only slightly (around 5%) beyond the core of the large one. Normally, such configurations would be classified as a planet and its moon, but Universal Cartographics deemed these two to be beyond a certain limit, and thus classified them as a pair of planets.
The smaller planet is on an inclined orbit relative to the larger one's rings, giving varied views of the rings over time. At the closest approach, it draws quite close to the rings.
The two are also quite close to the red dwarf star of the system, they orbit it at a distance of just about 10 ls. This gives even better photo opportunities from the surfaces of both planets.
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