Solar System Challenge!!

[DomAzaris1996]

Hey guys, posting my first challenge here! I want to do this, but I am too busy designing, flying crashing, and setting up mun base programs (IE crew exchange and restock missions after certain time periods).

I challenge you, to make our real life inner solar system around Kerbol with ships... I.e. put a ship in the same orbit around Kerbol as they are around our sun (for example, mercury has an 88 day orbit)..

The orbits are preferred to be decently circular (yes I know the arent all perfect in real-- mercury\'s is highly elliptical), but the main goal is their orbits the right time

Just so you know, a good way to do this (or the only way even¹) is halve the orbital periods (IE mercury 88/2=44), go to the periapsis/apoapsis and see how long it is to the opposite side

Here are the periods:

Mercury - 88 days

Venus - 225 days

Earth - 395365 days

Mars - 687 days

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¹ Dont quote me on this-- It may not be true

[amore555]

Here are the periods:

Mercury - 88 days

Venus - 225 days

Earth - 395 days

Mars - 687 days

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¹ Dont quote me on this-- It may not be true

Check Earth again

[DomAzaris1996]

Haha whoops!!! stupid mistake is stupid

[amore555]

Sorry I realised I broke your one and only rule and quoted you on it...

Anyway, good luck to anyone trying to achieve this. I wouldn\'t even know how to begin!

[DomAzaris1996]

Haha, i dont know if you understood the saying In Australia it means if you are going to tell someone else that fact, don\'t tell them I said it cos it may be wrong and I dont want to look bad...

But yes good luck to anyone who attempts this!!

P.S. I just successfully recrewed/restocked my Mun base

[amore555]

Yeah we have the same saying in Pomtown as well

[SunJumper]

Um, it\'s not the periods you need, but the size of the orbits, since Kerbol is much lighter, and the system is shrunk by a factor of about 11.5.

So:

Mercury 5.2 billion (metres)

Venus 9.7 billion

Earth 13.534 billion (duh)

Mars 20.5

Uranus 260

Neptune 407

To get these values, find the target planet\'s real semi-major axis in ASTRONOMICAL UNITS, and multiply by 13.534 for the height in billions of metres.

I\'ve done the inner solar system, and an object representing Jupiter/Saturn Combined (due to a misunderstanding with myself ( http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=15198.0 )), and I have two sattelites going to Uranus and Neptune (I\'m not doing any of the outer dwarf planets...)

[DomAzaris1996]

The reason I wanted the time periods because... Its because when you time warp you can see the planets moving at the times they would in real

But I guess if you want to do them in size of orbit, that would be okay

Cheers,

Dom