A Kerbal's Guide to our solar system

[CarolRawley]

I have found some historical records about Juturn!

Juturn gained its Gas Planet status when the super advanced mining organization, Pollux Industries, discovered that Juturn, then a Terrestrial planet, was entirely composed of the rare mineral, Unobtainium. Pollux Industries thus began to mine on the planet\'s surface. After a mere 3 months, Juturn had reduced in size to half the original, and a thick layer of pollutant smog had gathered within the atmosphere, due to the exhaust from the Pollux mining machines. After another 2 months, Pollux Industries reach Juturn\'s Handwavium core, and carted it back to Kerbin. The smogs covering Juturn, now kilometers thick and impossible to see through, compressed, and formed a much smaller planet, classed 'Gaseous' some time later. While this new planet was less than half the size of the original planet, it became the Juturn we know today.

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

Juturn?

[CarolRawley]

Actually, we already agreed on Juturn.

[swamismurf]

Inquiring minds want to know: What is the Mun\'s surface gravity? What shall be it\'s diameter? This is critical information for mission planning purposes!

[jgjiscool]

Go see the thread 'That\'s not kerbal'. You sound as if you need to learn the Kerbal way...

[swamismurf]

Is it not more Kerbal to know such ephemera ... and disregard it?

[jgjiscool]

Touche...

[thorfinn]

Well, me and Harv worked out the size of the sun and kerbin\'s semimajor axis. The sun is 0.01x the mass of earth\'s sun, with a radius of 200,000 km

Kerbin orbits at a distance of 5 million km away, with an orbital period of roughly one month.

The Mun orbits kerbin over a period of 48 hours, at a distance of 13,000 km.

We have new data from Harv:

Mass: 1.756567e+28

Radius: 6.54e+07m

Gravity at surface: 27.94G

Distance from Kerbin: 13,559,014,750m

See also this thread

[NovaSilisko]

That\'s the current distance of the placeholder point light sun. That says nothing about what the final sun will be like.

[Tiberion]

Heh those numbers have nothing to do with the pretend lightpoint thats there now, they\'re intended physical characteristics of a future sun at that location.

[mincespy]

Wow. Hope this is in the game!

[Guest Flixxbeatz]

Wow. Hope this is in the game!

in version 1.00 onwards I guess

[JupiterII]

That way when the Kerbals crash and have ouchies, they just have to step outside for antiseptic.

Actually, as a halogen an iodine atmosphere would probably be ridiculously reactive -- both on its own and as hydrogen iodide, which is highly acidic. Anyone wonder what the Kerbal skeletal system looks like?

Kerbals don\'t have ouchies. It\'s either life or death.

[mincespy]

Really glad to see that you didn\'t just bang a \'K\' in front of everytihng.

Putting a \'K\' in front of everything is definately not the way to go about naming things.

[SchildConstruct]

Never leave home without it, otherwise you might get lost.

Also this

'it\'s' and 'its' are not interchangeable.

I\'ll now go and kick a puppy. No worries, it had it coming. Like anyone who confuses 'it\'s' and 'its'.

[NovaSilisko]

It\'s a simple mistake. I\'ll just airbrush out the apostrophes.

Or you could just shut up and ignore it and comment on the actual content.

[SchildConstruct]

It\'s a simple mistake. I\'ll just airbrush out the apostrophes.

Or you could just shut up and ignore it and comment on the actual content.

It\'s called 'editing'.

[Key of door]

It\'s called 'editing'.

Diz iz tah interwabs, I do not require proper grammar.

[Technical Ben]

Lol. I will still keep 'Murs' in a soft spot in my heart. Other than that, it\'s a great picture!

[NovaSilisko]

This concept is set to receive an overhaul, compliant with FY2012.

Included will be:

Celestia model of Kerbol system

New planetary arrangement based on community suggestions

Today\'s progress:

[CarolRawley]

Fire Star seems to have an elliptical orbit?

[Commander Zoom]

A bit, yes, which suggests it\'s a relatively recent capture from somewhere in the outer system.

[xzbobzx]

We totally need a planet shaped in the form of a donut.

Edit; ...that\'s inhabited by dinosaurs and trees.

[Archer]

We totally need a planet shaped in the form of a donut.

Edit; ...that\'s inhabited by dinosaurs and trees.

or a Ringworld?

[xzbobzx]

or a Ringworld?

Nonono, an actual donut shaped planet, with dinosaurs on it.