Joy! Somebody found my post of interest.
On Monday, March 5, 2007, at 03:37 AM, Thomas Thrien wrote:
First I am used to Roman digits for the planets of a star.... Greek
letters are usually used for naming the stars in a multi-star
system.... also
... name the main star with Major and the second with
Minor.
I will immediately adopt this convention.
Next I miss some data on the table: As the planetary orbits are usually
not circles, but ellipsis, they have two "diameters", or a least a
factor is given how much larger one is compared to the other. Next I
miss the length of a planetary year and the length of a planetary day.
I have all this data calculated; I just didn't put it on the Planetary
Record Sheet. Why? Because there wasn't a place for on the Planetary
Record Sheet that you download from e23
(http://e23.sjgames.com/item.html?id=SJG37-0204).
In addition to what you mention, I also miss the atmospheric pressure
and composition. Also, there used to be a place for how significant
the seasonal variation was (based on the axial tilt).
All of the above should be pretty easy to include, except for the
atmospheric composition and seasonal variation. Can anybody offer
advise on how to randomly generate realistic atmospheric compositions
and realistic seasonal variations in actual °C (or °F). Using our own
Solar System, GURPS: Space Atlases, and GURPS: Prime Directive as
models, I think I'll be able to come up with something; but if anybody
has any other suggestions, I'm all ears.
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