YourFace wrote:I have a proposal for the positions of the main planets at these positions:
0.44 AU
0.62 AU
1.00 AU (Teles)
1.39 AU
2.64 AU
5.10 AU
8.16 AU
14.933 AU
28.37 AU
39.72 AU
The type of planet at each of these positions has not been decided yet.
I feel like this is too crowded. 10 planets is a lot.
Reckon this:
0.83 AU (A)
1.00 AU (Teles)
1.46 AU (C)
6.76 AU (D)
13.45 AU (E)
25.56 AU(F)
I think it's probably reasonable that either D or E could be excluded to ease the application of the Nice model.
Results:
-Astronomy is significantly easier. We arent absurdly crowded as in our solar system. Hopefully that means less interplanetary impacts. Life would probably have around 1 billion more years to develop.
-Inner planets are closer together. This is both good and bad. If they are too squished, they run the risk of destabilizing each other. In addition the problem of satellite planets exist, where one planet hogs "planetismals" meaning it becomes too large while the others become deprived husks. I don't think these distances are close enough for that to occur though. This also reduces the ability to develop good space programs. Wow, this sounds overwhelmingly negative. Let's go straight to characteristics.
A - lifeless husk like Mercury;
Mass: 0.36 Earths. It has the bare wisps of a magnetic field. Too weak to adequately protect itself from the Sun's harsh glaze, it has minimal atmosphere, mainly poisonous gasses like carbon dioxide, making up as much as 60% of its atmosphere. The next largest is oxygen, at 25%. Other gases make up the remainder of the weak yet deadly atmosphere. Temperature ranges from maybe -80 Celsius to 79 Celsius (Poles-Equator).
B - Teles!
Mass: 0.8~1.2 (1.0) The mass could vary a lot with the same result. Teles will hog up an absurd amount of the gaseous materia of the inner belt at the creation. I personally believe the gravity could be half ours with the same result. Venus is basically pre-Hadean Earth, with a mass 80% of ours. Mars still has a decent atmosphere despite being an 11% of our mass.
C - Old Teles
Mass: 0.8~1.5 (1.2) The battle over these numbers will chaotically change Telesian development. A smaller number means more gas for our atmosphere and more comets for water (if that's actually right:Wikipedia suggests otherwise). But on the other hand, the smaller number means less protection from comets as they will be less caught, and more cataclysmic devestation like the dinosaurs. And the Planetocopia suggests that we have too much water as is! A larger planet also means something else: we could have sister life, a quick stop for astronauts, or an inhabited planet ripe for the taking! But remember, life has a unique property of creating conditions for itself. Life is largely responsible for the fact Earth is not Venus; it's not the distance of the planet as some say. It could be a veiled gas giant: rocky on the inside, gassy on the outside. Temperatures will be from (47 C - 200 C) to (500 C)
D - our Jovian gas giant!
Mass: 212 Jupiter has a gravity only ~2.5x that of earth. D has a gravity 1.75 that of Earthiana. This means that it's well is much smaller than that of Jupiter. Bad for probes like Voyager, but good for ordinary Telesians. Less asteroids in the belt, and possibly the enlargement of C. One side affect: this makes hell erupt if I'm increasing the mass of this fat ass.
E - Big fat Neptunian planet, has a restraining order from the other planets.
Mass: 36 Twice Neptune's mass. Less massive than D, and at the same location as Uranus doesn't help our intrepid cosmonauts. But I'm sure they'll be fine at Uranus. Very cold and not fun at all. I give a 2/7. Lots of sick-ads moons though. Beautiful ring system. It's a shame it's basically invisible to Telesians. Ingrates! A gravity of 2 makes it nasty to be near.
F - Bring a jacket. No wait, they're all frozen
Mass: 12. Gravity here is almost better than Earth (1.1x) Not enought rings tho. Most of the OTBOS are in sync with F including recently demoted G. Sorry folks, he's not a planet. F is decently eccentric (0.093) This might be responsible for bringing magnificent comet showers every one in a while. Call me Hale-Bopped! Other than that he didn't do much in the creation of Teles.he was shoved a lot by E during the growth of the universe. Sad, I know. You should give F a hug. The gravity can't bite, but the cold certainty will.