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Help with orbit distances

Major B

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If anyone can supply the distances for orbits in the system generation rules, I'd very much appreciate it.

I don't have all of my books with me, and I think the distances may be in the Ref's Companion.

I'm trying to diagram a system surrounding a K2V star. I need the distances for orbits 0-9. Well, not all of them - here's how the planets fell out:

orbit 0: Size S planet
orbit 1: Size 2 planet
orbit 2: Size 7 mainworld w/ 1 satellite
orbit 3: empty
orbit 4: planetoid belt
orbit 5: Small GG w/ 6 satellites
orbit 6: empty
orbit 7: Large GG w/ 6 satellites
orbit 8: empty
orbit 9: Size 7 planet w/ 2 satellites
 
From CT book 6

Orbit Radius (Mm) Radius (AU)
__ 0 _________ 29.9 ______ 0.2
__ 1 _________ 59.8 ______ 0.4
__ 2 ________ 104.7 ______ 0.7
__ 3 ________ 149.6 ______ 1.0
__ 4 ________ 239.3 ______ 1.6
__ 5 ________ 418.9 ______ 2.8
__ 6 ________ 777.9 ______ 5.2
__ 7 ______ 1,495.9 _____ 10.0
__ 8 ______ 2,932 _______ 19.6
__ 9 ______ 5,804 _______ 38.8
_ 10 _____ 11,548 _______ 77.2
_ 11 _____ 23,038 ______ 154.0
_ 12 _____ 46,016 ______ 307.4
_ 13 _____ 91,972 ______ 614.8
_ 14 ____ 183,885 ____ 1,229.2
_ 15 ____ 367,711 ____ 2,458.0
 
Yep, it's in the errata file actually. Not fixed to star size and identical to Wil's post from LBB6 as far as it goes, but adds orbits 16-19:


Orbit Radius (Million km) Radius (AU)
_ 16 ________ 753,363 ______ 4,915.6
_ 17 ______ 1,470,666 ______ 9,830.8
_ 18 ______ 2,941,274 _____ 19,661.2
_ 19 ______ 5,882,488 _____ 39,322
.0
 
Thanks very much! Exactly what I needed.

Now I can start the system plot and figure out how to attack it.
 
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