Mustafar - Planet or Moon?

If anyone checked out the Hyperspace Episode III Insider #80 gallery, one image shows Anakin's fighter heading for Mustafar, but Mustafar itself is orbiting a MUCH, MUCH larger planet. Isn't Mustafar a planet? Planets don't orbit other planets!

 

Looks like it's a moon of something else.

Sort of a mirror to Endor (being the final planet in ROTJ) as really a moon of some other planet.

 

Nope- its a twin planet.

Which explains its rocky atmosphere.


CHeck out the official planets thread for more info.







Clone

 

It's a double planet.

The OS said that.

Pluto is one too, Charon (which we call its moon) is actually half the size of Pluto and they spin around each other like a double planet.

 

I noticed that as well. Weird. I did read some where that it is described as a "Young" Planet so maybe that somehow has something to do w/ it.

 

would be interesting if the other planet was dagobah. vader would never want to go near that place. too many bad memories.

 

It is a moon, just like Titan. Check out this new image taken today by the Huygens space probe. I see oceans!

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/landing_03_H.jpg

 

Rocky atmosphere???

That makes it a planet???

First, what the heck is a rocky atmosphere??? Atmosphere is made up of gas and dust. Not rocks.

Second, an atmosphere doesn't make a space object a planet. Turn on CNN right now and you can see coverage of Huygen's landing on Titan, a MOON of Saturn. Titan has a very thick atmosphere.

 

1.) It's NOT Dagobah, we have a pitcture of it, it's a small brown Jupiter-like gas planet, much more detailed than Yavin was.

2.) It's CONFIRMED to be a DOUBLE PLANET.
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Just so you kew it was confirmed, becaus esome people seem to miss that part!

 

Okay, I have to say it:

That's no moon

 

Darth you cant be serious. You actually think i thought there were "rocks" floating around in the atmosphere??????


Rock is an adjective/synoum which means turmoil, bad, etc, etc


Its a double planet. It has a BAD atmosphere because its so close to its twin- it throws off the magnetic fields and energy levels- hightening volcanic activity.

And no i dont mean the actual HEIGHT of the volcano's is bigger





CLone

 

would be cool if it were the planet of the little grey aliens (polis...). the twins born of twin planets... one of death & one of birth. the alpha & the omega... beginning & end.

 

I agree with Tion. It has to be a binanry system.

But don't forget that Yavin 4 & Endor were both moons and both had an atmosphere. So basing the asumption that Mustafar is a planet only on the fact that you can breath it's air isn't a good way of deciding the whole Moon or Planet question.

 

i wasnt basing any asumptions on the planet have an atomsphere and that making it a planet.

I was going by GL saying, and the people in the webdoc saying its a planet.


Thats what makes it a planet.




CLone

 

Have you guys thought about this:

Endor is the location of the end of ROTJ while Mustafar is the location of the end of ROTS.

Both are moons (more than likely).

Endor is a planet filled with trees and life, representing possibly rebirth along with the lightside victory.

Mustafar is a planet of volcanic activity and death, representing the fall of the lightside and the coming of the dark times ahead.

Coincidence?

 

*weeps at the thought of yet another mirror*



When, God? When will the mirrors end? Please make them stop.

 

"When, God? When will the mirrors end? Please make them stop"

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

Sounds like the kind of thing Lucas would do to, he loves that symmettry and symphonic stuff. So I guess Mustafar's instability is the result of its twin's gravity?

 

I too am becoming a little concerned about the number of mirrors. I just hope George knows where to stop.

 

I like mirrors!


And Mustafar is confirmed to be a planet, is it not?

 

Hades2021, please read my post above. Please.

 

I like George's symmetry of things in the films. I'm also into all of his Campbell-inspired myth mirroring in the films.

 

I think (Mustafar ---> big planet) is like (the moon Io ---> Jupiter).

Basically, Io is very active and volcanic moon that orbits Jupiter.

 

If Mustafar is in a young solar system, then it might not have had a chance to cool down enough to become truly solid... then it would be more of a (albeit messed-up) symbol of something new being born.

If Mustafar is like that from planetary tidal forces (which are in effect even in Pluto & Charon's rotation around each other), like Jupiter's moon Io, then it could be seen as a symbol of proximity to a great ruler (both of our great gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, were named after Roman gods said toeither rule or have ruled all cf creation) ripping something apart.

Or it could just be a volcanically active chunk of rock minding its own business...

 

Speaking of mirroring (for those of you who hate it, look away):

If you saw the first pic in the gallery for Insider #80, the picture of the Jedi / Republic Squadron over Coruscant looks reminiscent of the Rebel Squadron over Yavin from ANH. This time however, the starfighters are coming from the other direction.