Re: [FT] Help: Planets and Gravity

"Izenberg, Noam" wrote:
> 
>	  I'm glad there's a discussion going on about this right now
(though
> I haven't been keeping up with it. It enables me to ask a question for
a
> scenario I've been thinking of building. I want to set a battle around
a
> pair of Roche worlds. They're a pair of giants ~20 MU diameter,
semi-gas
> planets. They co-orbit a center point with about 4 MU of space between
them.
> htey probably need to be distorted egg shapes. The pair rotate a clock
> facing every turn.
> 
>	  Kickers are:
>	  1) I want an atmosphere in the space between them - the main
> habitable part of the system.
>	  2) I'd  needa handle ofn the gravitatinal evvects of different
zones
> around the pair.
> 
>	  If I get all that, I can set up a test PBeM scenario and
perhaps
> draw up a template for a live game table (It'd be nice to have
something to
> un at ECC IV). ANy help would be appreciated.

What happened to your human computer over there at the lab, Karl??
He can calculate this out for you.  ;-)

Mk