This is a Galaxy Forge for the Celestial Bodies Mod for Sins of a Solar Empire.
It attempts to represent the major bodies of the Solar System, all nearby exoplanets, and stars that are nearby and on NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder top 10 list list in an accurate and usable for game play manner. This map should be used as a base for building scenarios cenetered on the Sol system not as a stand alonemap.

Objects Included

	* The 8 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
Neptune

	* The 5 recognized Dwarf Planets: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris

	* The major Satilites of the above bodies: Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede,
Calliso, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Miranda,
Ariel, Umbriel, Titiana, Oberon, Triton, Neried, Charon
	
	* Asteroids that are Potential Dwarf Planet Canidates: 2 Vesta, 3 Pallas, 4 Vesta, 10 Hygeia

	 * Named potential Dwarf Planets: 90482 Orcus, 28978 Ixion, 20000
Varuna, 50000 Quaoar, 90377 Sedna

	* The top 10 stars for NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder mission.

	* All stars to a distance of 10 light years

	* Non-red Dwarf stars to a distance of 25 light years

	* All exoplanets in 40 light years
	

	At the time of writing there are 5 known Trans-Neptunian Objects that
have the potential to be dwarf planets that have not received a name. They are
not shown: (55636) 2002 TX300, 2005 UQ513, 2007 OR10 'Snow White', 2005 QU182.
The Kuiper belt was getting to crowded.

	Where possible all objects are displayed with the Celestrial Bodies
Meshes rather than generic Sins Meshes.

	



Major Sources for Data
http://exoplanet.eu/catalog-all.php?&munit=&runit=&punit=&mode=15&more=yes
http://www.solstation.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_planets_and_dwarf_planets_in_the_Solar_System





v03.
	Added README
	Added Remaining stars with explanets to 40 LY.
