egg changed the topic of #principia to: Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/principia | <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly…
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⟨Kobymaru⟩ Basically just timers and checking up on it with orbit prediction. Try to find stable orbits if possible.
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⟨Kobymaru⟩ Fail miserably at it by trying to maneuver into a moon orbit with parameters from a paper with 2 out of 3 moon relays, only to find out that only the one you forgot to adjust the orbit of is alive and the other two were eaten by the evil *mascons*
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⟨Kobymaru⟩ Not speaking from experience or anything
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⟨lpg⟩ What am I missing? "Lowest altitude" -85km, "Mean periapsis altitude" 1 ± 60km. Where's the other 26km going?
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⟨egg⟩ in the word *mean*. That periapsis altitude is the periapsis altitude of a theoretical orbit with the mean eccentricity and mean semimajor axis, not the actual altitude of an actual periapsis.
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⟨egg⟩ the ± describes the variation of the mean elements (your orbit is deforming quite quickly, as you can see in another way in the variation in eccentricity).
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⟨Al2Me6⟩ Feature request (and l10n pain): hover descriptions for all the items on that page
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l10n?
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⟨Al2Me6⟩ localization
<raptop>
oh
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⟨lpg⟩ ah. I had taken the ± to indicate the range of values adding up to the mean (and then I wondered how the mean could always be right in the middle of the range)
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I assume ±1σ?
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⟨egg⟩ nah, range of values of the mean element, with the midpoint
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⟨!Kerbinator (free to ping me)!⟩ hmm
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⟨!Kerbinator (free to ping me)!⟩ not only that, can remain stable for a few years
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⟨!Kerbinator (free to ping me)!⟩ SE L1/2 is quite stable and you can plot so that a halo/lyapunov orbit can remain 3-6 laps, each consuming 1/2 years, which can remain 3 years of stability
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⟨!Kerbinator (free to ping me)!⟩ EM L1/2 is unstable due to pertubtions of Sun being high
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⟨!Kerbinator (free to ping me)!⟩ EM L1/2 is unstable due to pertubations of Sun being high (edited)
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⟨!Kerbinator (free to ping me)!⟩ ------
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⟨!Kerbinator (free to ping me)!⟩ btw, is Principia unable to simulate axial precession?
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⟨!Kerbinator (free to ping me)!⟩ (despite not being apparent way before Principia begin to lag your game to death because it takes 26k years for 360deg)
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⟨Butcher⟩ The Sun is a cruel mistress. q.v. my Mercury orbiter that got eaten. 😦
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⟨Butcher⟩ Yes, started in a ~180x6000 km orbit, perturbed into an almost circular orbit, then perturbed into a highly elliptical orbit which hits mercury.
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⟨🌈Exilate⟩ thanks newton
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[Principia] pleroy opened pull request #3218: Add a function to merge two nonoverlapping DiscreteTrajectory objects - https://git.io/JMJDR
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[Principia] pleroy edited pull request #3218: Add a function to merge two nonoverlapping DiscreteTrajectory objects - https://git.io/JMJDR
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[Principia] eggrobin labeled pull request #3218: Add a function to merge two nonoverlapping DiscreteTrajectory objects - https://git.io/JMJDR
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[Principia] pleroy closed pull request #3218: Add a function to merge two nonoverlapping DiscreteTrajectory objects - https://git.io/JMJDR
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[Principia] pleroy pushed 9 commits to master [+1/-1/±132] https://git.io/JMTIu
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[Principia] pleroy b60457c - Start to implement Merge.
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[Principia] pleroy 063bb2b - Merge branch 'master' into Merge
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[Principia] pleroy e18e63e - Merge branch 'master' into Merge
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[Principia] ... and 6 more commits.