New Moon: The discovery of the real solar system SPLATT. The find that lanched the ship? An odd ball of nickel iron found among the ice worlds. Dark and somewhat small, it might never have been found, except for its peculiar origins. Splatt appeared to have been formed when an impactor bored though it nearly in line with its spin axis. This in turn allowed it to be discovered, due to the magnetic anomally created by the spin. Something like a short iron pipe, Splatts current dimensions are 16 km along the spin axis, 4 km I.D. and 16 km max O.D. Ideas for exploiting this object abound.
2092
Colony founded near K40G131up1.5(SD2500)
Contact was lost last year, after Splatt had been reached.
(a brief note on navigation:
K denotes an object found at these approximate coordinates; no object coords begin with N for null. 40 refers to the astronomical units from Sol.
G refers to angle from Sol with Galactic center as zero.
131 is the angle in degrees.
up 1.5 refers to degrees above the plain of the solar system, vertex again at Sol
SD2500 refers to Space Datum 2500 Anno Domini, when all the above referenced objects were on day1, standard time zero point zero point zero, of 2500.
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K40G131up1.5(SD2500) Science Team Report .
2092.a.30.12.30.15 zuntanna@str.k40g131up1.5.com
Object called SPLATT. report two on this subject.
Found: Nearly spherical nodules of impact glass, from .001 m size to 0.3 meter size. Unusual concentrations of heavy metals in the glass. Some useful w/o refining.
Examples:
Glass w Radium (and little else),
Glass w Uranium (and little else),
Glass w Thorium (and little else),
Glass w Pitchblend.
my favorite find was almost to good to be true, and most of these were about 5 cm in diameter.
Glass with phosphorus and some radium.
Also found:
Hollow glass bubbles, walls .2-.4 meters thick, diameters
from 1 meter to 6 meters. There were many of these on the inside of SPLATT. The ST has already moved into a few of them. This all seems to good to be true. Perhaps ther.(end message fragment)
Story from the Plains Utopian, Mars,2093.1.1
20,000 people left Europa on 4 JHI Colonizer ships, with 8000 personal craft, utility vehicles and shuttles. They headed out for a 500 km object (K40G131up1.5(SD2500) known as Gandalf to the
colonists. The space they headed for was rich. Within 4 million km of Gandalf were 4 100 km objects, 10 objects with sizes between 40 and 60 km, 100 objects with sizes between 5-10 km,
and over 1000 objects less than 1km in diameter. An unexpected world was discovered too. SPLATT, the mystery world. Always in capital letters, because the impact believed to have caused it must have been really big. Turning at close to 1 revolution per minute, the "gravity" on the inside of SPLATT (at the ID) was reported to be 0.1 standard gravity, or about 1/3 normal for us. Contact was lost 2092.a.30.12.30.15. No word has since been heard.
Newmoon

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