[Planned, yet to be WIP]Twin of kerbin (Yet to get a better name) Kopernicus mod

[daniel l.]

Hi there! i am planning on a simple single world planet pack, Have you ever imagined what it would be like if earth had a habitable binary twin?

if Neil Armstrong had landed on it instead of the moon and on tv you saw him triumphantly remove his helmet and study a leaf?

Well fear not! my pack adds a currently unnamed binary companion to kerbin that has a unique but still habitable environment.

Size: 550km est.

Gravity: 0.5g

It will have massive high altitude mesa flats with a desert biome, and on the canyonsin between shrouded in fog lies a rich prairie with the occasional forest, this planet will also have a diverse amount of fauna (As soon as kopernicus expansion adds the feature)

Concept art (not by me though)

[Guest]

Excited to see how it turns out!

[MatterBeam]

Hi there! i am planning on a simple single world planet pack, Have you ever imagined what it would be like if earth had a habitable binary twin?

if Neil Armstrong had landed on it instead of the moon and on tv you saw him triumphantly remove his helmet and study a leaf?

Well fear not! my pack adds a currently unnamed binary companion to kerbin that has a unique but still habitable environment.

Size: 550km est.

Gravity: 0.5g

It will have massive high altitude mesa flats with a desert biome, and on the canyonsin between shrouded in fog lies a rich prairie with the occasional forest, this planet will also have a diverse amount of fauna (As soon as kopernicus expansion adds the feature)

Concept art (not by me though)

http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/blogs/dnews-files-2014-12-binary-planet-nasa-670x440-141211-jpg.jpg

550km/0.5g would make it extremely dense and even more unrealistic compared to the rest of Kerbin's planets.

Could I suggest a bigger size?

And call it.... hummm... reverse of Kerbin... Niberk?

[RA3236]

Hi there! i am planning on a simple single world planet pack, Have you ever imagined what it would be like if earth had a habitable binary twin?

if Neil Armstrong had landed on it instead of the moon and on tv you saw him triumphantly remove his helmet and study a leaf?

Well fear not! my pack adds a currently unnamed binary companion to kerbin that has a unique but still habitable environment.

Size: 550km est.

Gravity: 0.5g

It will have massive high altitude mesa flats with a desert biome, and on the canyonsin between shrouded in fog lies a rich prairie with the occasional forest, this planet will also have a diverse amount of fauna (As soon as kopernicus expansion adds the feature)

Concept art (not by me though)

http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/blogs/dnews-files-2014-12-binary-planet-nasa-670x440-141211-jpg.jpg

You should this with Sigma Binary to make a real binary system.

[njmksr]

Might I recommend the name "KerbTwin"?

[skykooler]

550km/0.5g would make it extremely dense and even more unrealistic compared to the rest of Kerbin's planets.

Could I suggest a bigger size?

And call it.... hummm... reverse of Kerbin... Niberk?

Kerbin is 1200 km across and 1g, 550km/0.5g would be a fair approximation of a smaller body in KSP.

[MatterBeam]

Kerbin is 1200 km across and 1g, 550km/0.5g would be a fair approximation of a smaller body in KSP.

Square cube law.

Planets are spheres, so halfing the diameter leads to 1/8 the mass. Graity is linear with mass, so a half size Kerbin will have 0.13 gravity