What is the real kerbin orbit

[Mr_Auto]

Hello, I want to have satellite around the sun at the same orbit as Kerbin but directly on the other side of the sun, i got as close i can by just looking at the orbit, they are almost perfectly match, so now just check the actual orbit of Kerbin and correct it right?

problem is, in game is see the Apoapsis and Periapsis are around 13 351 000 000m but KSP Wiki says it's should be 13 599 840 256

Am i doing something wrong?

[zolotiyeruki]

Maybe the game is subtracting out the radius of Kerbol?

[Geonovast]

28 minutes ago, zolotiyeruki said:

Maybe the game is subtracting out the radius of Kerbol?

That would make sense, the wiki says Kerbol has a radius of 261 600 000 m.

[Spricigo]

The wiki is know to have some outdated stuff. I'd take the in-game value as correct.

On a side note, I wouldn't worry much about it. It is probably good enough^tm for most practical purposes^tm until rounding errors screw with that orbit on the long run.

[Superfluous J]

1. The game is indeed subtracting the sun's radius, just like it does for all the planets and moons.
2. Instead of working with Pe and Ap, maybe try to get the difference between your Ap time and Pe time to be as close to half a Kerbin year as possible.