Request: Solar System Supreme

[The Grand Teki]

Please someone merge (or tell me how to do it) the stock and small RSS so it should looks like this:

correction: ...same orbits but same time apart.

test: I will use these acronyms, please don't take them: SSU, SSS

Edited June 4, 2017 by The Grand Teki

[Regor]

Maybe the modders can put the different planets in L5 Lagrange points of the bigger planets

[The Grand Teki]

57 minutes ago, mabdi36 said:

Maybe the modders can put the different planets in L5 Lagrange points of the bigger planets

Please explain what is a lagrange point

[Regor]

7 minutes ago, The Grand Teki said:

Please explain what is a lagrange point

A lagrange point is, and i quote: "A Lagrange point is a location in space where the combined gravitational forces of two large bodies, such as Earth and the sun or Earth and the moon, equal the centrifugal force felt by a much smaller third body. The interaction of the forces creates a point of equilibrium where a spacecraft may be "parked" to make observations.

These points are named after Joseph-Louis Lagrange, an 18th-century mathematician who wrote about them in a 1772 paper concerning what he called the "three-body problem." They are also called Lagrangian points and libration points."

 

TL;DR, it is the most stable position for objects i.e. Jupiter Trojans / Kepler Telescope

Edited June 4, 2017 by mabdi36

[The Grand Teki]

3 minutes ago, mabdi36 said:

^

So there'd be a lagrange point between our Sun and Kerbol, right?

Edited June 4, 2017 by The Grand Teki

[Regor]

Just now, The Grand Teki said:

So there'd be a lagrange point between our Sun and Kerbol, right?

Yep! Although it would be the barycenter of sun-kerbol and kerbin.

Edited June 4, 2017 by mabdi36

[The Grand Teki]

Just now, mabdi36 said:

Yep!

Okay. What do you think of my idea?

[Regor]

Insane...ly AWESOME! 

This would create so many opportunities! Think of the gameplay!

+rep

BTW, I do not think Sun and kerbol would sit in Lagrange points as they both orbit the barycentre, so Sol would eat Kerbol.

Edited June 4, 2017 by mabdi36

[The Grand Teki]

Just now, mabdi36 said:

Insane...ly AWESOME! 

This would create so many opportunities! Think of the gameplay!

+rep

Thanks! We could have so many opportunities for gravity slinging!

[Regor]

Heh..

Make Gravity assists great again!

[The Grand Teki]

Ah, it's called a gravity assist!

[Regor]

I find them extremely hard to do!

[The Grand Teki]

True... 

[Regor]

LOL, cant give more rep

[The Grand Teki]

rip rep

[wasml]

I think you'll need Sigma Binary to get Kerbol/Sun going. The rest should be achievable with some text editing of the config files - in the "Orbit" section for each of the planets.

Edited June 4, 2017 by wasml

[DStaal]

The one comment I have is that I don't believe having planets in 180˚ opposing orbits actually is stable - it'd be more realistic to have them in trojan orbits to the larger body.  (So Kerbin would be in one of the Earth-Sun trojans, etc.)

[wasml]

There is the L3 point at 180 degrees - Jupiter has some asteroids there - though not sure how long something could be expected to last there. More interesting is the horseshoe orbit - but would need a mod to make planets do that.