Bad Life Choices
29 May 2018PrimetimeCasual
So, after a long time, finally a log entry again.I threw my Hauler around Fisher station for the Okinura challenge. I co-hosted the instanity that was SpeedBowl. I went crazy in the BRC Pub Crawl. I smashed SRVs in the Buckyball Freefall Festival.
And now, the maddest insanity yet - a circumnavigation Mitterand Hollow!
A few facts about the weirdest place in the Bubble:
- Earth masses: 0.001
- Orbital period: 0
- Semimajor axis: 0
- Orbital eccentricity: 0
- Orbital inclination: 354 (as close to 0 as make no difference)
- Rotational period: 0.1 (tidally locked)
The orbital period is actually 86 seconds. Or about 40 planetrises per hour. FOURTY. PER. HOUR.
There's a total solar eclipse every 90 seconds, for 10 seconds. EVERY. NINETY. SECONDS.
The planet itself travels at 880km/s, which means that conventional landing approaches simply won't work. Head-on or park yourself in its orbit.
Mitterand Hollow has a radius of 684 km, meaning a circumference of about 4300 km. If I can average (!) 40 m/s flyving in the SRV, that means roughly 30 hours.
Or, about 1200 planet rises. Less than expected.
I'll probably start near the 0 / 0 point, for ease of navigation, and head either due west or due east. My schedule is to get landed there this week, then go on a vacation, thinking hard about my life choices that lead to this insanity, then start my circumnavigation in early June.