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From: Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann
Subject: New Year's Greetings from Kallipyros!
Date: 3 Jan 2019 10:30:15
Message: <5c2e2a87@news.povray.org>
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Hi(gh)!
In the outer reaches of the Solar System, an intriguing object floats
through the darkness of space: Kallipyros, a strange spherical asteroid
famous for its incredibly intense cryovolcanism, even observable from
orbital telecopes around Earth. In 1996, the POVghan space agency
launched a probe to explore this strange celestial body that finally has
arrived in an orbit around Kallipyros. From received altimetry data, a
prelimary model of the asteroid has been constructed to be showed here.
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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On 3-1-2019 16:31, Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann wrote:
> Hi(gh)!
>
> In the outer reaches of the Solar System, an intriguing object floats
> through the darkness of space: Kallipyros, a strange spherical asteroid
> famous for its incredibly intense cryovolcanism, even observable from
> orbital telecopes around Earth. In 1996, the POVghan space agency
> launched a probe to explore this strange celestial body that finally has
> arrived in an orbit around Kallipyros. From received altimetry data, a
> prelimary model of the asteroid has been constructed to be showed here.
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
Now, beat that, Ultima Thule! ;-)
--
Thomas
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hi,
=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_=22Yadgar=22_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmx de> wrote:
> Hi(gh)!
> In the outer reaches of the Solar System, an intriguing object floats
> through the darkness of space: Kallipyros, a strange spherical asteroid
> famous for its incredibly intense cryovolcanism, ... From received
> altimetry data, a prelimary model of the asteroid has been constructed ...
looking at the "data" it seems that the "volcanoes" are congregating nearest the
probe. a sign of .. imminent danger? :-)
enjoyed image + story.
regards, jr.
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Mountains of water-ice, for future explorers to make use of! Or is it
bad-tasting solid methane and ammonia??
Nice image.
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From: Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann
Subject: Re: New Year's Greetings from Kallipyros!
Date: 4 Jan 2019 19:55:43
Message: <5c30008f@news.povray.org>
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Hi(gh)!
On 04.01.19 22:23, Kenneth wrote:
> Mountains of water-ice, for future explorers to make use of! Or is it
> bad-tasting solid methane and ammonia??
Properly speaking, it's not even an asteroid, but something like a
failed neutron star - with towering starquake eruptions every 1/25
second, much too violent to make it a second home for cheelas!
But then I calculated that using the whole 35-minute fireworks sequence
(hence its name "Kallipyros", meaning "beautiful fire") as a basis for
generating meshes would result in a cool 130-days rendering time...
definitely too much for me, as I have other projects running
simultaneously and occupying CPU time.
Perhaps I'll stay with this one mesh and instead try out navigation on
the surface of a spherical object - an exercise of which also my other
hibernating POV-Ray project like Ghurghusht, Whatmough and of course
Khyberspace would benefit!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann wrote on 03/01/2019 16:31:
> Hi(gh)!
>
> In the outer reaches of the Solar System, an intriguing object floats
> through the darkness of space: Kallipyros, a strange spherical asteroid
> famous for its incredibly intense cryovolcanism, even observable from
> orbital telecopes around Earth. In 1996, the POVghan space agency
> launched a probe to explore this strange celestial body that finally has
> arrived in an orbit around Kallipyros. From received altimetry data, a
> prelimary model of the asteroid has been constructed to be showed here.
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
Ha ha... greetings,
Paolo
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From: Jörg "Yadgar" Bleimann
Subject: Re: New Year's Greetings from Kallipyros!
Date: 8 Jan 2019 19:00:55
Message: <5c3539b7@news.povray.org>
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Hi(gh)!
Here also views of the north and south pole of Kallipyros - its axis is
Next thing will be views from low orbits above its surface... and I
should think about naming the most prominent terrain features!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
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> Hi(gh)!
>
> Here also views of the north and south pole of Kallipyros - its axis is
>
> Next thing will be views from low orbits above its surface... and I
> should think about naming the most prominent terrain features!
>
Aaaah! You stir up memories! In 1976, while teaching at the University
of Algiers, I thought up a planet with a 90 degree tilt. Imagining what
life would be like the year round. My planet was a watery world where
the inhabitants would migrate from pole to pole to escape the fierce
winters and, assumedly, the violent storms generated at the terminator.
--
Thomas
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