Tag Archives: stardata

The Planet Ksufesh(First WIP)

Posted on March 5, 2018 by

Ksufesh is the second of three* planets orbiting Gzietsia3741C*, the least massive of three* stars in the Gzietsia3741 system. Of the other two* stars in the system, Gzietsia3741A* is the most massive and is currently in a red giant stage. … Continue reading →

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Goodie Bag

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

The time has come to post some links. Some may be useful, others may just be fun. Still others may just be symptomatic of mental illness on my part :). Rocketry and Spacecraft The first thing in the Rocketry and Spacecraft … Continue reading →

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Developing a Workflow – Part IV B: Other Worlds

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

I’m eager to get to mapping Yaccatrice, so I’m kind of skimming over this step. The Yaccatrene people are pretty well planet-bound, so I’m keeping things pretty simple with respect to the other planets in the system. I used the … Continue reading →

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Developing a Workflow – Part IV: Yaccatrice and Sky Moon

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

For most of the worlds in this system, I am only interested in those attributes which might impact on Yaccatrice. I will detail Yaccatrice, itself, to a greater degree. To start with, I figure I need mass, qualitative composition, qualitative … Continue reading →

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Developing a Workflow – Part III: Orbital Positions

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

I’m going to base my statistical distribution of orbital intervals on planet and moon data from Evolution of the Solar System by Hannes Afvén and Gustaf Arrhenius(alternate link). Unlike my previous effort in this vein, instead of basing my distribution on a list of … Continue reading →

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Developing A Workflow – Part II: The Star

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

I’ve been working on a system for randomly assigning classifications to stars with something like real-world distributions. I haven’t quite got it right yet. So I’ll just pick something out based on my current obsessions. Yaccatrice will orbit an M-class … Continue reading →

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Developing a Workflow – Part I: Concept and Outline

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

One of the great problems with the way I’ve been creating worlds since I’ve started this blog has been the disorganized way in which I’ve been going about it. I need to develop a workflow and work my way through … Continue reading →

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Panspermia, Precursors and the Ubiquity of Life

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

One of the things I wanted in my fictional universe was a great plurality of more or less habitable worlds. Well beyond anything expected even by Stephen H. Dole’s Habitable Planets for Man. I also wanted a universe that made … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Links – A Month and a Day Late

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

Welcome back to Wednesday Links. Yeah it’s thursday and I haven’t posted anything in awhile. Well here’s what I’ve been wading through for the past few weeks. Still wading through a lot of it… Comprehension. That’s what I’m tryin’ for. … Continue reading →

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Planetbuilding Research – Placing Star Systems

Posted on March 9, 2011 by

If you are creating the world in a particular location in space, the first step is generally mapping out the neighborhood. Sometimes, particularly if you are creating a fantasy-type world or some other situation where the locals aren’t going to … Continue reading →

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