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Posted by: Barkhorn
« on: January 24, 2018, 10:50:43 PM »

Well, excluding comets, all bodies have circular orbits in-game.  I think the DB just takes an average of the semi-major and semi-minor axis to decide the size of the orbit.  Then for anything in Sol, he probably found a calculator online somewhere that'll give him a position on that orbit.  For fictional bodies, he probably just randomly assigns them orbits and positions, with some caveats like how gas giants sometimes get trojan asteroids.
Posted by: firefly2442
« on: January 24, 2018, 10:34:00 PM »

Are there any databases for simple spherical 2D orbit positions (radius, velocity, etc. ) of planets, asteroids, and so on?  How does Aurora set them?  I found JPL Horizons but it looks pretty complicated.

https://ssd. jpl. nasa. gov/?horizons