Eeloo reveamp

[Superpluto126]

We all know pluto has 5 moons,and a atmosphere,should eeloo have these aswell?

[Delta Space]

I like the solitude of Eeloo, a desolate ball of ice far away from every things else, all on it's own. So I think that it should be kept that way. However, to me at least, Eeloo looks more like the planet Eris than Pluto: Eeloo and Eris are completely covered in ice, Pluto has some rock. I don't think they're going to add any celestial bodies, but if they did, a true Pluto analog with Eeloo as an Eris analog would be at the top of my list.

[Guest]

It's a great idea, but I don't think it fits into the game. Because Eeloo is supposed to be the sole dwarf planet. And I agree with Delta Space, A new planet with 5 moons make sense (also, Eris has one moon.)

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[kerbiloid]

Yeah, five moons... Ista, Bista, Liad, Miad and Poidel...

https://books.google.ru/books?id=u7NiWHqHRv4C&pg=PT90&lpg=PT90&&f=false#v=onepage&q&f=false

Edited August 24, 2020 by kerbiloid

[GoldForest]

8 hours ago, The Doodling Astronaut said:

It's a great idea, but I don't think it fits into the game. Because Eeloo is supposed to be the sole dwarf planet. And I agree with Delta Space, A new planet with 5 moons make sense (also, Eris has one moon.)

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Eeloo was actually supposed to be a moon in itself for GP2. GP2 may still come to the first game. 

[Guest]

27 minutes ago, GoldForest said:

Eeloo was actually supposed to be a moon in itself for GP2. GP2 may still come to the first game. 

I don't think it's coming. Anything could happen but I don't think it's coming... maybe as a DLC but I don't see anyway else... But GP2 and Eeloo getting moons probably have the same odds of happening. 

If the moons where added, here is what I am thinking

I feel like a Charon analogue makes moons coming with Eeloo difficult. You have to make the physics work. The other 4 moons would be easy. In fact, theoretically, you could get some comets and call those moons of Eeloo (Even though the other RL Pluto moons are about the size of Gilly.)

[KerikBalm]

12 hours ago, Delta Space said:

I like the solitude of Eeloo, a desolate ball of ice far away

You mean sometimes closer than Jool... Eeloo isn't that far away, I want something like OPM.

12 hours ago, Delta Space said:

 However, to me at least, Eeloo looks more like the planet Eris than Pluto: Eeloo and Eris are completely covered in ice, Pluto has some rock.

Pluto has some rock at its core, but is completely covered in ice. The water ice behaves more like rock, but its "ice" by normal definitions. The darker parts are just dirty ice.

We have very little idea what Eris looks like. It may look very similar to Pluto.

12 hours ago, Delta Space said:

I don't think they're going to add any celestial bodies, but if they did, a true Pluto analog with Eeloo as an Eris analog would be at the top of my list.

I doubt they will too, but to be an eris analogue, it needs to move farther out.

Eeloo's cracked appearance makes me think it should have some source of tidal flexing. Pluto doesn't look like that for sure.

[Superpluto126]

Should Eeloo have a atmosphere?

[Guest]

They tried it in KSP 1, they don't think it would work.

[Incarnation of Chaos]

8 hours ago, Superpluto126 said:

Should Eeloo have a atmosphere?

Pluto's "Atmosphere" is less like Earth's or Titan's and more like what would happen if a comet was large enough to have enough gravity to hang on to the heaviest gasses as it approached the sun. Also, similar to a Comet's "Tail" the "Atmosphere" of Pluto is a transient feature. Only appearing when it's at it's closest approaches to the Sun, so it wouldn't always be there if implemented realistically.

Would make an interesting idea for another Solar System though; have a Super-Kerbin Sized planet with massive amounts of ice on a highly elliptical orbit. As it approached it's Host Star, the ice would waste away and form a massive, thick atmosphere and crushing pressures on the surface. And then fall back down as torrential blizzards as it shot back up to apoapsis. But KSP2 won't have weather, so that won't happen....for now.

[Kerminator K-100]

Eeloo actually has an atmosphere. In the wiki page it says this:

Actually, there's a very thin atmosphere around Pluto in real world. In the ScienceDefs.cfg file, it says for the Gravity Scan:

 {  
   EelooSrfLanded = There appears to be a teneous atmospheric coating around the planet. But it is too thin to affect any spacecraft landing here.	
 }

So it seemed like there's a very thin but otherwise non-measurable atmosphere out there.