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  1. So...I seemed to have found another solar system!

    I decided to go through the entire data set of a star where I observe at least 1 planet transit. The first star to get this treatment was called KIC 7586580, a small K-Type star just 66.1% the size of Sol. There appear to be an upper limit of 5 planets with years of 19, 47, 74.5, 202.5, and 720.5 days. But keep in mind that this is just one model. There are many issues that make all 5 planets pretty controversial. Since the star is highly variable, and since all the planets are close in size, its possible that two planets might be one. The only two planets I feel kinda confident about are Planet 4 and Planet 5. Planet 4 had wider transits (maybe because of rings), while Planet 5 was the largest of the bunch.

    I recommend that you try to check out the data of KIC 7586580. It's known on Planet Hunters as APH00014z9. Most transits should be somewhat easy to spot.

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    2. Spaceception

      Spaceception

      Oh, well, it's still an excellent find.

    3. The Raging Sandwich

      The Raging Sandwich

      Want me to make this system for you, too?

    4. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      Sure! Here's some creative juices:

      -Planet 1 is probably a bigger version of Mercury.

      -Planet 2 is a "Hot Mars."

      -Planet 3 is a rusty, Venus analogue.

      -Planet 4 is a lot like Duna, except with more surface variation and colors.

      -Planet 5 is an active Pluto-like world.

  2. I'm thinking of making a planet pack that adds in some of Kepler's weirdest and most unique multi-planet systems, such as Kepler-454, Kepler-87, and Kepler-186. Opinions?

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    2. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      Both of those systems are part of other planet packs. Also, I want this mod to only focus on Kepler planets, either K1 or K2.

    3. electricpants

      electricpants

      I was talking about the star. :P

    4. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      Hmmm....Maybe some stars like Tabby's Star that are in Kepler's fields of view, but don't have planets. I'll have to do some research on Simbad and some analysis in Planet Hunters to get some of these stars.

  3. 400 rep! Thanks, @Vanamonde!

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    2. Spaceception

      Spaceception

      Your Exoplanet discovery does help :)

    3. electricpants

      electricpants

      Spaceception is right. :wink:

    4. Spaceception

      Spaceception

      Thank you, I am, I always am :)

  4. I just saw a set of red lights in a triangle formation near a freak lightning storm. This is probably my coolest UFO sightings ever, especially since I have an amazing picture of it!

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    2. electricpants

      electricpants

      I see it! :0.0: That thing must be massive!

    3. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      It may or may not be the grouping of Antares, Saturn, and Mars. However, these lights are too close to the horizon and in too tight of a formation to likely be those three celestial bodies. They also were all red.

    4. The Raging Sandwich

      The Raging Sandwich

      Although it was about the right shape of the Antares, Mars, and Saturn, there's no way it could be. Was it moving at all? Will it be there tonight? 

  5. I recently did some math about Indra (KIC 7848638 f) and found out that it is likely to have a candidate exomoon! More information here.

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    2. electricpants

      electricpants

      Have you been able to figure out it's mass yet?

    3. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      I've estimated an upper mass limit of 0.03 Earth masses. Any higher than that and it would be mostly made of iron, which is impossible because its parent planet is made of silicates and H/He. I believe this moon formed in a collision like how our moon formed.

    4. electricpants

      electricpants

      I don't think it could form from a collision with the gas giant, but maybe it formed when two large moons collided with each other. Also, maybe it could be like Ganymede/Europa/Enceladus/Mimas in that it has liquid water oceans underneath it's crust. It might be like Europa/Enceladus because it might have an icy surface, but maybe like Ganymede/Mimas because it's surface also might be rocky.

  6. I have some updates on my new planet KIC 7848638 b. I named it Chantico, after the Aztec god of fire, and its star Koyash. Chantico's size has been pinned down to 1.17 Earth radii with an error of about 574 kilometers (0.09 Earth radii). I've also spotted at least two potential extra planets in the Koyash system.

    1. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      Another planet! This one is, for now, called KIC 7848638 c. I was able to spot its small transit in multiple sets of data from the same star. It has about 0.656 times the radius of Earth (with errors of plus 0.068 ER and minus 0.113 ER), and an orbital period of about 15.5 days. It was very hard to find its signal in the light curve of Koyash.

      I was also able to pick out the transits of Chantico in other data sets, too, making this less likely to be a false positive.

    2. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      I just found THREE MORE planet candidates in the Koyash system. Koyash d has 0.9 times Earth's radius and orbits every 37 days. Koyash e may be potentially habitable, with a year of 201 days and 1.63 times Earth's radius. Koyash f, on the other hand, could be a frost line gas dwarf. It has a radius of 2.08 Earths and a year of 442 days.

      As of right now, the most dubious planet is Koyash f, due to how I only found 3 transits of it.

    3. Spaceception

      Spaceception

      KOYASH E MAY BE HABITABLE!?

      Ahem....

      What would be your approx. ESI?

      Also, 37 and 201 days is a pretty big gap, could there be smaller planets like Mercury or the Moon around that area?

  7. I think I found something in Planet Hunters...

    In the light curve of APH00015me (KIC 7848638), there is a potential transit every 12.2 days. Even with the large amounts of noise, every transit dims the stars light by about 0.108%. The star is a K-Dwarf with 83% the size of our sun, so this planet could be anywhere between 1.2 and 0.95 times the size of Earth. This guy may be a terrestrial planet! I've also estimated the host star's mass (possibly 0.82 solar masses), and I was able to calculate the planet's semi-major axis to be about 0.04741 AU. Art and name for this planet candidate coming soon!

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    2. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      Update! I managed to calculate the size of KIC 7848638 b, and it comes out to about 0.98 Earth Radii. I also named it Chantico, after an Aztec volcano/earth god.

    3. electricpants

      electricpants

      It's really too bad this planet isn't in the habitable zone.

    4. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      Wait, scratch that, it's about 1.17 Earth radii with an error of about 0.09 Earth radii...

      I think.

  8. I have my own YouTube channel now! Go check it out! It is "ProtoJeb 21." I have just one video now, though.

  9. I glitched Jeb so bad in the atmosphere of my planet 99d that he stretched into an abomination over 100 kilometers wide. Pictures (and maybe a video) coming soon.

    1. electricpants

      electricpants

      JEEBUS, IS THAT U?

      (Seriously though, how can you flip up a kerbal that bad?!)

    2. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      1: Drops a large vessel with inflated heat shield into the atmosphere of 99d.

      2: Only the pod and heat shield survive initial entry.

      3: Get the Kerbal out.

      4: Kerbal gets stuck in heat shield and starts glitching.

      5: The swaying vessel shoves Kerbal out into the atmosphere.

      6: Poor Kerbal starts spazzing and expanding.

      7: Kerbal becomes something like Danny's newest experiment.

      8: The Kerbal gets to be something like 1,160 kilometers wide (diameter of 99d) and you can't see it anymore.

      9: 99d turns into a black hole with a rainbow rim.

      10: Kerbal hits event horizon FIVE KILOMETERS BELOW SEA LEVEL.

      And that's how I glitched Jeb Kraken-style in 10 easy steps!

  10. I've finally returned to Interstellar Adventure Revived, but I need help. The mod is becoming too big for me to test on my computer without at least one crash. I need someone to help test out the new updates and tweaks for IA-Revived before I release them to the public.

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    2. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      How good is your RAM? You probably will need something like 4-6 gigabytes. Either that or I'm incorrect and you just need a good computer.

    3. electricpants

      electricpants

      Me!

      I'm not sure about my RAM, but my game never crashes playing IA_Revived.

    4. rough93

      rough93

      I have 12GB of RAM

  11. I'm starting my burn for Duna with the Perseus 1 mothership and the Perseus Lander. Four kerbals are going to Duna and back. This is my first time doing this type of mission. This, along with other missions, will be posted up on the Solar System SCIENCE thread within the next few days. Wish me and the Original Four luck!

    1. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      Still burning...

      Oh my Kraken this is taking forever. :confused:

    2. electricpants

      electricpants

      Is it done now?!

    3. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      Yeah, I finished a few minutes after my previous post. Perseus 1 is now ~84 days away from Duna, while my Jool probe named Taranus is about 40 days from aero breaking.

  12. To anyone who was originally following me before the Great Follower Purge:

    Can you please follow me again?

    1. Atlas2342

      Atlas2342

      Ahh, that's why...

    2. Spaceception

      Spaceception

      That's a good name for it :)

  13. 300 rep! (Thanks, @Spaceception!) I "only" have 700 rep to go....

    1. Spaceception

      Spaceception

      :)

      Also, I have no idea how I have not followed you yet :confused:

    2. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      I think the forums were hacked. Spread the word. It's going to be a LONG time before followers are restored.

  14. I just made my first thread in Mission Reports: Solar System SCIENCE!!! It's about the missions and other stuff in my science mode save with the same name.

    1. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      The first story in Triple-S is up! Part Two of it will come out tomorrow.

  15. I'm going to be getting a YouTube channel very soon! Probably within the next few days. My channel is going to be the same name that I have on the forums (but with a different password to keep out hackers [*cough* Poodlecorp *cough*] for a long time). The first video will be me creating abominations of nature by throwing pulsars at planets in Universe Sandbox 2.

    1. electricpants

      electricpants

      Ooooh!

      You have Universe Sandbox 2 too? (Yeah, I know. Tutu, haha so funny.)

      Can't wait to watch ur vids! :)

    2. Spaceception

      Spaceception

      Cool, link it here when you can  :)

    3. Andi K.

      Andi K.

      Oh sweet! Will definitely be watching your videos when you start making them. Good luck!

  16. If anyone's wondering why I haven't been updating my mods or doing much on the forums, it's because I'm on vacation and can only access the forums with my phone. Too bad KSP doesn't have a mobile version :(

    Anyways, I'll be returning home within 24 hours, and I will quickly update my mods. I will also be doing more IRVEES observations these next few weeks. Next target: GJ 1214 b.

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    2. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      Yep, I knew, and I was pretty annoyed that 1.1.3 was released while I was on vacation. Also, I'm back now! :)

    3. electricpants
    4. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      I finished just about everything for version 0.2 of Kumar's Dwarf Stars before I left, but just two bugs need to be fixed. It will be out soon, I promise.

  17. I've got 200 rep! Only 800 more to go!

    (Okay, who am I kidding? That'll take forever!)

  18. Sorry guys, but I won't be able to view IDR-1 tonight. I realized just tonight that my telescope's tracking system needs a planetload of AA-batteries. Since I don't have the right amount and type of batteries, my viewing has been postponed to Saturday night. Someone, avenge me!!! :P

  19. Kepler has 1,284 new planets! And about 10 of them may be Earth-like! And over half of them are smaller than Neptune! WOOOHOOOO!

    1. Spaceception

      Spaceception

      I think this is relevant :)

       

  20. I've started a thread for a new program/group: IRVEES. This is an exoplanet hunting group that will use transits, radial velocity, and direct imaging to find planets. For now, any members (including me) are going to try and find transiting planets in a patch of sky near the star HD 89744, in Ursa Major.

    1. StarCrusher96

      StarCrusher96

      there is already one planet :P

    2. ProtoJeb21

      ProtoJeb21

      I know that HD 89744 has an Eccentric Jupiter, but I'm just using it as a Guide Star. I also think that it may have a transiting planet with a VERY tilted orbit. This would probably be the result of HD 89744 b itself.

  21. 100 reputation! Thanks to @CliftonM for the 100th like!

    1. Guest

      Guest

      Congrats!  I didn't even notice that that was 100. :) 

      There, have 101.

  22. I'm baaaack!!!! After 6 weeks of theory testing, I'm ready to return to Kopernicus! Version 0.4 of Interstellar Adventure Revived will be released tomorrow...most of the content was finished a month ago. I'll release the first version of KKCM, test Kerbol Starsystem, and make a new mod that includes a bunch of brown dwarfs!

    1. StarCrusher96

      StarCrusher96

      new version of Kerbol Starsystem will be ready soon :P 

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