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17 Aug 2024 00:15:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Planet  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 30 Nov 2001 13:06:03
Message: <456JhHAlFyB8EwFs@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Bryan Valencia who wrote:
>Supposedly a gas giant with it's moons.
>
>This uses the new moons macro.

The cloud patterns on the gas giant are rather weird. All the gas giants
in our solar system either have cloud bands or are very plain.

Similarly, the texture of the ring looks weird. The texture of Saturn's
rings runs around the ring (like grooves on a record).

There are far too many moons in similar orbits. Their gravity would
interfere with each other each time they passed, making the situation
very unstable.

The dark side of moons and planet wouldn't be illuminated. There's not
much ambient lighting in space.

The Sun seems to be extremely close. The nearby moon and the planet are
illuminated from such a different angle that the light source must be
not far off the edge of the edge of the ring.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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