Quaoar, anyone?

[dab]

so they finally discover transpluto, and then they go on and name it
...Quaoar?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2306945.stm


Quaoar gives only one google hit just now (but I figure this will change quickly):
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbo ... Qgods.html

this seems to be some database of gods:

Quaoar: Their only god who "came down from heaven; and, after reducing chaos to order, out the world on the back of seven giants. He then created the lower animals," and then mankind. Los Angeles County Indians, California

( Greek gods not good enough anymore, eh? )

anyway, I think it will be some time before we get a texture for celestia...

dab

[chris]

I created a .ssc file for Quaoar . . .

http://www.celestiaproject.net/celestia/files/kuiperbelt.ssc

As usual, copy it to your extras directory . . . I just borrowed Pluto's texture (which is fictional except for the large scale albedo variations), but it's likely that these bodies look quite different. Pluto's thaws enough to develop a thin atmosphere, which eventually refreezes when it's elliptical orbit takes it further from the Sun. Quaoar is in a less eccentric orbit further from the Sun, so it probably doesn't experience these thaw/freeze cycles.

--Chris

[Aristarkhos]

There's some more information, including an artist's imagining of Quaoar, at the Hubble website at

at http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2002/17

[TVTExtreme4]

Here is a link to Space.Com's Info About Quaoar:

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/quaoa ... 21007.html

[Rassilon]

I also did a DDS file for Quaoar...Its in the link in my sig where my files are located...Just install directly to the root Celestia directory...I used chris's ssc file just changed the texture variables...Its nothing fancy but works...

[Bat]

I also did a DDS file for Quaoar...

Very nice. =)

Nothing like discovering (or, to be more precise, reporting the existence of) a sizable object on the fringe of our solar system and then, only a few hours later, already having a custom texture for it. Amazing!

[Rassilon]

Ill make a better one maybe tonight...That one wasnt the best...

[MKruer]

Greek gods not good enough anymore, eh?

I think you mean Roman gods.

You know Jupiter is the Roman rip off of the Greeks Zeus!

Just playing!

[Rassilon]

Ok way better Quaoar tex is up on the server...Link is in my sig...If anyone needs a JPG lemme know and Ill post that as well...

[selden]

Unfortunatley, not everyone has an Nvidia card, so I'm sure there are lots of people who'd enjoy either a jpeg or png version.

[Rassilon]

Done.

quaoar_up.zip is the dds version
quaoar_jpg.zip is the jpg version

Both textures are 2048 x 1024 sized

[dab]

I think you mean Roman gods.

excepting Uranus, well, yes.

although they are all pretty much ripped off copies of their greek counterparts.

Of course, in greek, MVTMJSUNP will become HAGAZKUPH.
But with the Los Angeles County Indians, I don't know,
maybe XQQZQYZYQQ?

as one slashdot poster put it: THE SCRABBLE PLANET!

dab

[Darkmiss]

Great job Ras.

Thank you for the Qoara#ra@earor....! texture
whatever its called

[Rassilon]

Great job Ras.

Thank you for the Qoara#ra@earor....! texture
whatever its called

Being quite pissed right now that made perfect sense hehe...Thanks bud!

[steve.wray]

Considering this is where comets come from,
anyone care to knock up a hypothetical quaoar becomes a comet for celestia?
;)

[Spanky The Dolphin]

as one slashdot poster put it: THE SCRABBLE PLANET!

dab

And the astronomers got extra points for using up the rest of their letters.

[Rassilon]

Hmmm spankey the dolphin LMAO shall I call you flipper for short?

[Spanky The Dolphin]

No.

[Rassilon]

Damn...Well I suppose naming you after a peppermint pattie is out too?