OHM Trojan Asteroids v1.0

[OrbitHangar]

Adds the 20 largest Trojan asteroids ahead and behind Jupiter. Jet between the rocks among one of the solar system's lesser-known destinations.

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[sputnik]

This is actually my first "scenery" add-on; thought I'd give it a try.

My idea was that the Trojans would make a good "Orbiteering" destination, since they hang out in a relatively tight cluster. Turns out it's not that tight, though.

 

[RisingFury]

Well, it's tight in the solar system scale :lol:

Yea, (un)fortunately the asteroid belts don't look like they do in Star Wars/StarGate/Star Trek

 

[liber]

Do a have to worry for trojan,is it infected add?

 

[HopDavid]

This is actually my first "scenery" add-on; thought I'd give it a try.

My idea was that the Trojans would make a good "Orbiteering" destination, since they hang out in a relatively tight cluster. Turns out it's not that tight, though.

Lagrange regions lie on Belbruno's weak stability boundaries. Belbruno's paths can send payloads to various destinations with much less delta v than traditional patched conic paths.

For this reason I find your add on interesting. Are there other add ons that enable exploration of launches from L regions?

Some folks believe there are many icey bodies in the Trojans. If this were so, these might be better for terraforming Mars than Kuiper Belt objects (like in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy).

 

[MJR]

Do a have to worry for trojan,is it infected add?

Trojans are easy to remove. I removed like 14 manually yesterday night.

 

[sputnik]

HopDavid,

I can't think of one; that's one reason I wanted to try it.

If you really want to get froggy, you can set EllipticOrbit to False in the .cfg file, and change a = to the value in the JPL database. I didn't like what that did to orbit propogation under high time compression, though, which is why I did it the way I did.

 

[nadreck]

You know, as a complete newby here and to orbiter (ok I looked at the 2006 version and didn't have time to get addicted to it, still don't but hey). I was looking for something interesting and to me modelling a mission to take a smallish Jovian Trojan with a high water content like 617 Patroclus and its binary pair Menoetius (ok not certain to be mainly ice, but really likely) on a wander through the jovian moon/rings system and via gravity slinging and really small delta-v's bring it to Earth orbit, or maybe Lunar L4/5. It's value there would be astronomical (pardon the pun).

 

[nadreck]

Ok, I had downloaded the new 2010 version and can't seem to get it to recognize the asteroids, the scenario starts up on Mercury (somehow the first on a list I guess). They just don't show up anywhere in the system.

Is there something I need to add to the .cnf files to make it work in 2010?

 

[sputnik]

Did you read the .pdf? You do indeed need to edit sol.cfg (described in the .pdf), which is true any time you add planets to the solar system.

 

[nadreck]

My next project is learning to read :blush:

 

[Mandella]

Hey Sputnik, I just loaded this one in to 2010 to see if there was any problems (and yes, Nadreck just needs to copy/paste the asteroids as planets into sol.cfg), and I noticed a possible inaccuracy.

As I understand it, Patroclus has recently been determined to be a binary pair with a separation of several hundred kilometers, and not a "peanut." (Menoetius is the designation of Patroclus B.)

Easy enough for me to edit it in for my own use, but I thought you'd like to have it brought to your attention.

Oh, and I'm getting my info from Wikipedia, so in the chance that *I'm* wrong, please correct me!

:thumbup:

 

[sputnik]

Nuts. The most visually distinctive asteroid in the add-on, and I've got to re-make it.

My source was Wikipedia too, and the JPL Small Solar System Object database. I must've misunderstood the reference to a binary object.

I'll fix it...sometime....