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bloodyrosemccoy ([personal profile] bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2007-04-25 12:24 am
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Worldbuilding Is A Process

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Here’s an excerpt from my current guide to the arhodes’ planet. (Subject to change.) And good lord I hope I got the math right, but right now what I like most is my stats for its moon ...
 
 
Kalkupu Star (Gherresa)
Class: K3
Luminosity: .691
Mass:  .900 (1.789 × 1030 kg)
Diameter: .925 (1.287 × 106 km)
Radius: 6.435 × 105 km
I (brightness from planet) = 1.02
 
Kalkupu
Distance from Star: .677 AU
Year length: .668 Terran years (244.16 Terran days)
Rotation: 21.7 h (21 h 42 m)
Diameter: 9782 km
Radius: 4891 km
Volume: 4.90 × 1026 km (4.90 × 1020)
g: 7.4 m/s2
Mass: 2.65 × 1024 kg
Mean density: 5.41 g/cm3
 
Moon (Azhik)
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Clearly, I have work to do on a few details …

[identity profile] queenlyzard.livejournal.com 2007-04-28 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
*blink blink* see, this is why I write fantasy instead of sci-fi. Just looking at numbers and stats like that makes my head hurt. I always spik over that stuff in the books I read... I don't think I could come up with something solid enough to be a basis for a story of my own!