egg changed the topic of #principia to: READ THE FAQ: http://goo.gl/gMZF9H; The current version is Cardano. We currently target 1.2.2. <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/
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<GH> [Principia] pleroy pushed 5 new commits to master: https://git.io/vSSx7
<GH> Principia/master a86b915 pleroy: Use the Quinlan-Tremaine order 12 integrator in most places (benchmarks excluded).
<GH> Principia/master 224fee5 pleroy: Merge.
<GH> Principia/master 36de96c pleroy: Don't switch everywhere.
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<egg> maccollo: Nice orbit! what does it look like in the mun-centred inertial and kerbin-mun barycentric frames?
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<maccollo> the square one?
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<maccollo> or the Illuminati orbit?
<maccollo> all of these stable retrograde orbits look similar in kerbin-mun barycentric, like an bend ellipse centered on the moon
<maccollo> bent*
<maccollo> and sometimes they look interesting in kerbin or mun intertial
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<maccollo> the Illuminati orbit looks like a more rounded triangle in moon fixed
<maccollo> but upside down compared to the orbited in kerbin fixed
<UmbralRaptor> … the interview just compared grad students with microbes on Europa/Enceladus. =\
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<egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a Kerbal
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg a smoked Kusanagi
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<maccollo> retrograde orbit around Kerbin
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<maccollo> not stable forever, but for a long time
<maccollo> That was strange...
<maccollo> I had a similar orbit
<maccollo> according to the prediction it was supposed to be stable, basically forever
<maccollo> then I launched another that passed in and out of mun's SOI
<maccollo> so similar orbit but closer
<maccollo> time accelerated and the first satelite got ejected instantly
<egg> might be that bug where we sometimes lost track of vessels?
<egg> dunno
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<maccollo> well, it doesn't want to do it anymore
<egg|zzz|egg> eh hopefully it will be fixed in Cartan, if you come across it then we'll look again :-p
<egg|zzz|egg> maccollo: not sure what's up with the physics warp thing btw, I'd say don't physics warp for now, I don't think I'll have the time to look into that for Cartan
<maccollo> must have been something like it... the other vessel wouldn't enter the mun SOI for like 20 years
<maccollo> probably more but I couldn't predict further
<GH> [Principia] pleroy opened pull request #1322: Expose the ascending/descending nodes in the interface (master...Node) https://git.io/vS9An
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<maccollo> the Illuminati orbit can be made sharper in the Duna system
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<egg|zzz|egg> maccollo: nice!
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: thoughts on those triangular orbits?
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: weird resonances
<UmbralRaptor> ping?
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: mind you it's not the hilda thing, that's triangular in a nonrotating frame
<UmbralRaptor> o_O
<UmbralRaptor> And not triangular like Rosetta?
<maccollo> that was due to course corrections, this is just the natural path of the trajectory
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a ㎭ tube
<maccollo> maybe if the mass and distance ratio of the planet and moon is just right, it's possible to make a perfect triangle
* UmbralRaptor is even more confused now.
<UmbralRaptor> Oh, some sort of resonant (ish) orbit?
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: yup, see the pics
<maccollo> so in the Kerbin system it's possible to have a square orbit around the moon
<egg|zzz|egg> a square around the moon, or a very weird ellipse around Kerbin
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: an eggscentric ellipse with a body at the centre rather than at the focus
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: and see backlog for plenty of triangles too
<egg|zzz|egg> maccollo: what do those orbits look like in the rotating frames though
<maccollo> all of them pretty much look the same
<egg|zzz|egg> ??? they're not synchronous then?
<kmath> YouTube - Principia shenanigans
<egg|zzz|egg> aah right ellipse centred on the moon
<egg|zzz|egg> well "ellipse"
<egg|zzz|egg> potato
<maccollo> when they are close to the moon they are more circular
<maccollo> as you go further away they become potato
<maccollo> and they are always stable
<maccollo> that is, until the distance from the planet at the farthest point is greater than the semi major axis of the moon
<egg|zzz|egg> hah, I see you enabled the patched conics, it's fun to see how garbled they get :-p
<maccollo> not even a good approximation =P
<maccollo> the most interesting stuff appears to be when you are close to the SOI
<maccollo> the edeg*
<maccollo> edge*
<maccollo> square around Duna
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: show that to your students to confuse them
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: the CR3BP is fun
<UmbralRaptor> They struggle with P² = a³, though.
<UmbralRaptor> I don't need them thinking gravity is fake. =(
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: you're making too many constants 1 :-p
<maccollo> the square around Mun is more interesting since it also has an interesting shape in the reference around the planet. This Duna square doesn't have an interesting orbit in Ike's reference frame
<UmbralRaptor> Also one variable.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: well it's supposed to be constant in Kepler's problem
<UmbralRaptor> Okay, that goes to zero.
<egg|zzz|egg> otherwise weird things are happening
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: please don't model mass loss of the central body
<UmbralRaptor> P²=4π²/G(M+m)) a³
* UmbralRaptor blinks at egg with a radiative transfer code.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: tbh nobody cares about the masses, so replacing G(M+m) with μ is fine
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: ... should we define a μ bar to get rid of the remaining numbers
<UmbralRaptor> hah
<UmbralRaptor> Well, if you have time in years, distance in AU, and mass in solar masses…
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: wait, μ *is* the reduced one, because it's the one you use with angular momentum: a³/μ = ω²
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: so then μ-but-not-reduced should be such that a³/μ-but-not-reduced = T²
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: clearly that parameter should be called м
<egg|zzz|egg> !u м
<Qboid> U+043C CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EM (м)
<UmbralRaptor> Sure, why not?
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: s/.*/AΑA?אܐ?አⲀ?? /
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg thinks UmbralRaptor meant to say: AΑA?אܐ?አⲀ??
<UmbralRaptor> Egg: no, that's mi response to the tweet I linked in KSPA
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: also wait, I screwed up, it's a³ω²=μ right
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<aeTIos> Hey when I open the flight plan window, there's nothing in there for some reason
<aeTIos> it's just empty
<egg|zzz|egg> aeTIos: are you in space?
<aeTIos> no.
<aeTIos> Is that it?
<egg|zzz|egg> aeTIos: we don't know about your vessel unless it's in space
<egg|zzz|egg> so we can't plan anything for it
<aeTIos> fair enough, thanks then
<aeTIos> :)
<egg|zzz|egg> no problem
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
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<aeTIos> hmmm the comms network indicators are so satisfying to watch
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg
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<egg|zzz|egg> aeTIos: unrelated: maccollo found some fun square orbits
<aeTIos> dank
<aeTIos> also is it me, or is the edited navball upside down?
<aeTIos> it says north is south
<egg|zzz|egg> hmm
<aeTIos> mmmm, no
<aeTIos> my stuff is just off
<aeTIos> im just dumb :)
<aeTIos> I was reading the navball incorrectly, kinda rusty at the game
<maccollo> square orbit around Ike is possible, although it likes to precess 90 degrees every 250 days
<maccollo> back and forth
<maccollo> which just so happens to be a quarter of a duna year
<egg|zzz|egg> O_o
<egg|zzz|egg> maccollo: moar videos \o/ :-p
<maccollo> maybe it has something to do with the eccentricity of Duna's orbit?
<maccollo> so initially it looks like the Illuminati eye around duna
<maccollo> then it begins to oscillate back and forth like this
<maccollo> once cycle takes roughly 250 days
<egg|zzz|egg> maccollo: uh, are you sure you're not using the reference frame aligned with the sun?
<maccollo> nope, static
<egg|zzz|egg> hm
<maccollo> I made a star
<maccollo> ultimate Illuminati trajectory around the Mars analog
<maccollo> Coincidence?
<maccollo> yes
<maccollo> if it was possible to plot the trajectory of several vessels at once this would look pretty neat
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