General Question Making celestial bodies

sorindafabico

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Hi

I'm trying to make Pluto, cfg file only at moment, without moons. Everything is going fine, except for:

1) The geocentric coordinates (RA, Dec) in Orbiter aren't matching those of JPL Horizons solution (I'm using 01-01-2000 12:00 UTC for testing). Orbiter gives RA 00h 29 46.15s and Dec -14º 25' 24.02. Horizons gives RA 16 45 42.75 and Dec -11 23 47.1.

The orbital elements in OrbitMFD for Pluto are matching those of Horizons.


2) I placed a Shuttle-PB landed on Pluto. Tried to put it in orbit and it behaves as if Pluto isn't there. All MFDs and HUDs are detecting Pluto, the "Forces" graph (from visual helpers) shows the weight relative to Pluto, IMFD shows Pluto's SOI, but the ship behaves as if it was in solar orbit.


Is this related to the lack of module or am I missing something? Here's Pluto.cfg:

; === Configuration file for Pluto ===
Name = Pluto
;Module

EllipticOrbit = FALSE ; temporary
HasElements = TRUE ; temporary

; === Physical Parameters ===
Mass = 1.314e+22
Size = 1.151e6

; === Orbital, rotation and precession parameters === related to SS Barycenter
Epoch = 2000.0
SemiMajorAxis = 5.953214571451005e+12
Eccentricity = 2.53710725714655e-1
Inclination = 0.3006193051554832068
LongAscNode = 1.92083492666499713043
LongPerihelion = 3.93080482733263865002
MeanLongitude = 5.94077472800028016961
;LAN =
;LAN_MJD =
;PrecessionLAN =
;PrecessionObliquity =
;PrecessionPeriod =
Obliquity = 1.198866663
;SidRotOffset =
SidRotPeriod = 551856

; === Atmospheric Parameters ===
;AtmPressure0 = 0.0024 ; pressure at zero altitude [Pa] (defined via module)
;AtmDensity0 = ; density at zero altitude [kg/m^3]
;AtmGasConstant = ; specific gas constant [J/(K kg)]
;AtmGamma = ; specific heat ratio c_p/c_v
;AtmAltLimit = ; cutoff altitude [m]
;AtmHorizonAlt = ; horizon rendering altitude [m]
;AtmHazeExtent = ; horizon haze extent
;AtmColor0 =
;AtmHazeColor =
;AtmFogParam =
;AtmFogColor =

; === Visualisation Parameters ===
MaxPatchResolution = 8 ; surface texture resolution limit (1-12)
AlbedoRGB = 0.3 0.3 0.3
 
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