SpaceExplorer's Fictional Solar System Objects

[SpaceExplorer]

Hi!

Here I begin my creations of totally fictional objects randomly thought by me within our Solar System. It will include fictional planets, moons, comets, asteroids and maybe even a star.

Here: http://frederickhiggins.com/celestia/terrestrials.htm These are the textures that I will use (at the moment). They are edited by me to vary and improve them. I change colors, contrasts, saturation, etc.

I can also update these addons as time goes by

Hope you like my little creations!

FIRST ADDON:

Infare, a super hot planet less than 0.05 AU away from the Sun. It is in a polar orbit with an inclination of 90°. It is 8000 km in diameter, larger than Mars but smaller than Earth. It does not even have an atmosphere due to its very close distance from the Sun.

[SpaceExplorer]

NEW ADDON

Nerio, my fictional moon of Mars. The third moon around the red planet. It is 100 km in diameter and its orbit is just beyond the orbit of Deimos.

3D model used: ida.cmod (original from Celestia)

[SpaceExplorer]

NEW ADDON

Salne is my first fictional moon of Saturn. It revolves around the planet between the orbits of Dione and Rhea. Salne is 1000 km in diameter.

You can follow two Cassini flybys over Salne:

1) October 11, 2005: 9,967 km away
2) September 30, 2015: 5,776 km away

[trappistplanets]

You can follow two Cassini flybys over Salne:

did you modify cassini's trajectory file or did Salne happen to be in the right place at the right time for both close flybys to happen with a unmodified cassini trajectory file?

[SpaceExplorer]

I didn't originally plan the Salne orbit for Cassini flybys. These two flybys were purely coincidental. The Cassini's trajectory is the real one, I didn't make any changes. Salne was just in the right place at the right time.

[trappistplanets]

thats dam impressive to have it line up like that, not just once but twice and that close to the moon to!

[SpaceExplorer]

NEW ADDON

A fictional giant NEO asteroid 500 km in diameter, passing close to Earth. The orbital parameters are from Jack Higgins' 2012 DA14 addon on Motherlode for an Earth approach, which takes place on February 15, 2013. Search for Gigant NEO Asteroid in Celestia's finder to find the asteroid.

[SpaceExplorer]

NEW ADDON

Stradus, my second fictional moon of Saturn. It is in an elliptical orbit around the planet at an inclination of 45°. A moon with a diameter of 500 km and a reddish surface.

[TheLostProbe]

this is super cool and interesting. definitely looking forward to what you release next!

[trappistplanets]

this is super cool and interesting. definitely looking forward to what you will release next!

yeah, also i thought you were dead on the forums

[SpaceExplorer]

Thank you! There are a lot of ideas I still want to do

[trappistplanets]

idea for future, give iapetus a small submoon, there is evidence for one that once existed (equator ridge) than it got unstable and fell apart forming the equator ridge we see.

[SpaceExplorer]

Excelent idea! I still want to add submoons around the moons, and in Iapetus it would be really interesting

[SpaceExplorer]

NEW ADDON

Lunomoon, a small moon orbiting Earth's Moon. To start the series of submoons

Used 3D model: asteroid-small.cmod

[trappistplanets]

also..iapetus submoon whole orbit should be directly over the equator where the ridge is from the death of the real possible thing

[SpaceExplorer]

Yes. I plan to place the submoon of Iapetus in an equatorial and elliptical orbit.

[SpaceExplorer]

TWO NEW ADDONS

Continuing the series of fictional submoons. Now Ganymede has gained a small submoon, with the provisional name Ganymede submoon, but it also has a secondary name of Galilei in honor of Galileo Galilei.

Titan also gained a small submoon, provisional named Titan submoon, but also with the secondary name of Hugenius, in honor of Christiaan Huygens.

3D model used: asteroid-small.cmod

[SpaceExplorer]

Coming soon... a new fictional planet

[SpaceExplorer]

At the request of trappistplanets, here is the submoon of Iapetus! The provisional name is Iapetus submoon.

[TheLostProbe]

i was only gone for 3 days and look at what you've done! you are making cracking progress