Forum:Planet Problems

The "Ooromine System"
We need to talk, Wikitroid. You may have seen some recent comments that I made on Talk:Ooromine System and Talk:Ooromine II, which is what this post will be regarding.

Untrue

 * 1) The first thing that I investigated was the planetary orbits. Most of them are highly irregular, turns out. (I made a trip to the Observatory from the Gunship just now.) contrary to common belief, "Ooromine II" only occupies the second orbit occassionally. It also occupies the third (briefly) and fourth.


 * 1) User:PED Marine suggested that the planet was named "Oormine II", and not the former. I noticed this after I finished filling in the Ooromine System category. Checked that out, and he was right, which means that all other uses of that name are incorrect, too.

Unlikely

 * 1) Tallon IV is not called "Ooromine/Oormine V" in Prime, it's manual, Corruption, or the Prime Comic. I don't think it likely ever was, based on the untrue information above. Unless someone offers a source, I'm pulling it.


 * 1) Ooromine/Oormine System does not occur in any of those media either. My guess is that someone was trying a little to hard to fit the puzzle pieces in ways that they aren't supposed to, based on the logic that Oormine II is the only planet that falls in it's number's orbit. We now know that it is not always second, and also that Tallon IV appears like it may intersect with Zebes at one point which would give it a (possible and partial) fourth orbit, but it is difficult to say for certain without a good overhead view. Ultimately, this name also needs to be pulled and either replaced an "Unknown" or merged with FS-176 unless a source is provided, and I'm not expecting one.

New

 * 1) I've got the real orbits, based on my best observations from multiple angles.


 * 1) I closely inspected all of the moons and have a count for each planet, now. Zebes's two moons, one large and small, that I mentioned in it's article based on other media is still accurate.


 * 1) I've also inspected planets and moons for retrograde orbits and rotations (which are tough to see on most of the smaller and inner moons).

I think that was all. Oh, I'll probably add something about the huge asteroid belt too, since that doesn't seem to be mentioned in the former "Ooromine System". ChozoBoy 11:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)