Re: [GZG] Real Astroplitics

[David Stokes <dstokes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

KH.Ranitzsch@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> How does the Astropolitical map compare to the list of well over 100
> systems that we now know to harbour planets ?
> Any inconsistencies with that ?
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I haven't compared the list, although I intend to "some day" when I have 
time, before I run a campaign of my own.

The updated list is online here:
http://exoplanet.eu/catalog.php

Take a look. Many of the radial velocity discoveries are in the range of 
the campaign map. While the first discoveries were "super-Jupiters" 
becasue they are bigger and easier to detect, most now are in the 
Saturn-Jupiter range with a few smaller Neptunes.

I tried to locate a few stars. Its not easy - star naming is a mess of 
different catalouge systems. If someone wnated to do this, an automated 
matching script would be the way to go.

A couple of examples I located:
55 Cancer, or listed on the map as BD+28 1660 is just outside the NSL, 
has 4 possible planets ranging from a close-in small body (probably a 
gas giant core whose gas has burned away) out to a 4xJupiter mass at 5.2 
AU.

Epsilon Eridani, a core world, has a gas giant (.86 Jupiter mass) at 3.3 
AU, and an unconfirmed Neptune sized at 40 AU, plus a dust ring.

I tried finding some examples from major powers, but flipping back and 
forth between different maps and naming systems was just too much to do 
manually this afternoon. If anyone undertakes it I want to see the results.

David Stokes

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