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| A* Episode 5, Dailies 81 - 83 | Jul 24, 2009 3:14 AM PDT | url |
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Added 3 new A* comics:It takes me a lot longer to draw Selenis than Vero, on average, but girls are fun to draw, so I'm not exactly suffering I suppose... And I think today's drawings came out pretty well, so to make the most of them I made fancied-up high-res versions of them that will be in the episode's art gallery when it's done, but you can go check them out now at deviantART. Here are some tiny previews, and links to the large versions:
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I'm still not entirely sure what to call these rocks you see here. They're part of a ring system around a planet, Gabbot's Claim, and my initial thought was to call them "asteroids." But when you actually look into naming conventions for space rocks, well, they're all screwy. Most of the definitions of asteroid (which comes from Greek: aster ("star") + oid ("form"), ie a star-like object, so that doesn't really help) say that it's a rock/metal/body/thingy orbiting the Sun, which seems like a silly definition since what would you call one orbiting a different star? It's all kind of loosey-goosey, so other groups and organizations, most notoriously the International Astronomical Union, have stepped in to confuse the matter. Depending on whose word we take for it, instead of "asteroid," an orbiting space rock (as opposed to a non-orbiting one, which is pretty definitely a "meteoroid," like in A* episode 2) should be called:- a "Small Solar System Body" (SSSB--if you want to be really generic, just roll this one off your tongue!)
- a "dwarf planet" (if they're big and round enough; Ceres in the Mars/Jupiter asteroid belt is now classed as one of these, for instance)
- a "minor planet" (if it orbits the sun and isn't a planet or a comet! >_<)
- a "Trans-Neptunian Object" (TNO--if it orbits the Sun on average farther out than Neptune)
- a "planetoid" (if they're big and round enough and the namer is slacking)
- a "planetule" (nobody likes this one)
- a "planetesimal" (if it's involved the the formation of a planet)
- a "comet" (if it has a tail, and usually an oblong or off-center orbit that takes it out past the planets)
- a "centaur" (if it orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbit of one of the giant planets)
- a "Kuiper Belt Object" (KBO--if it orbits between Neptune and about twice as far out)
- a "Scattered Disc Object" (SDO--if it has a funky orbit and is anywhere from about Neptune to three times farther out)
- a "Greek" (if it orbits the Sun at Jupiter's L4 (Lagrange) point! :P)
- a "Trojan" (if it orbits the Sun at Jupiter's L5 (Lagrange) point! >_<)
As you can see, this is a mess, and anyway most of them are only things orbiting our Sun. Ugh. Things in ring systems around planets, if they aren't big and round enough to qualify as moons, only seem to get called generic names like "rocks," "boulders," or "moonlets." Grr. So technically I should just call them "rocks," but that's just so...so...terrestrial. So I think I'll just call them asteroids, and nyah to all these silly astronomers overclassifying things. ;P
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