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| Re: Latest Fanfest News! | |
| Posted By: SiliconDream =PN= <querl@uclink4.berkeley.edu> | Date: 7/21/00 5:51 a.m. |
In Response To: Latest Fanfest News! (Freewill) > Check out the link below.. plenty of pics and info on tomorrow's
> Some Halo tidbits for you folks to mull over! > - free > http://bs.bungie.org/fanfest2.html (crossposted from Rampancy) Here's some answers concerning the signs: Those seem to be exactly the same signs that were on the doors of the Bungie Booth at E3. I remember the "Horologium" one, and I'd bet some of the signs in that photographed pile read "Brig" and "Vulpecula." Here's what's interesting: Both Horologium and Vulpecula are constellations containing stars with known planets. The Vulpecula planet is about 1.22 times as massive as Jupiter and has a highly eccentric (but possibly habitable) orbit around the star HD 177830. The Horologium planet is probably a gas giant, about 720 times as massive as Earth, and follows a very Earthlike orbit around the sunlike star iota Horologii. Could this second planet be Threshold, and iota Horologii host the Halo system? The first part of the number string beneath the big word on each sign is a distance; iota Horologii is 56 LY (light years) from Earth, and HD 177830 is 192 LY away. However, 56LY is on the Vulpecula sign and 192LY is on the Horologium sign, so apparently someone at Bungie goofed. :-) I dunno what the last 3 digits are. The white signs, of course, were just the signs up for the E3 movie; Entrance, Get Tickets Here, etc. I guess they're recycling them for the showings of the new footage. Here's a couple of articles on the 2 constellations:
http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu:3636/realpublic/gen_info/news/sixnewplanetsNOV99.html I'd send this to the Story Page, but Hamish likes to ignore me. :-) --SiliconDream PS: Vulpecula also harbors both the first planetary nebula and the first pulsar ever discovered. | |
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| Latest Fanfest News! | Freewill | 7/21/00 1:32 a.m. |
| Re: Latest Fanfest News! | SiliconDream =PN= | 7/21/00 5:51 a.m. |
| Re: Latest Fanfest News! | Hamish Sinclair | 7/21/00 9:15 a.m. |
| Re: Latest Fanfest News! | Loren Petrich | 7/22/00 3:53 a.m. |
| Re: Latest Fanfest News! | Cpt. Sqweky | 7/21/00 3:17 p.m. |
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