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| Feb 1, 2021 at 12:11 | comment | added | PM 2Ring |
The Google Calculator is handy for things like this. Eg, put (149598023 km)*((1 earth mass)/(1 solar mass))^0.4 into the Google search bar & it returns 924 520.73 kilometers.
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| Feb 1, 2021 at 12:09 | comment | added | Frotaur | I direct you to answers to this question space.stackexchange.com/questions/3015/… . In short, for your purposes you should use the Hill sphere, which specifically answer which body will a satellite orbit, whereas the SOI is more used to guide choice of frame of reference for modeling purposes. | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 12:03 | comment | added | Mister J | You're right, i misinterpreted the wiki page, but while i was looking for answers, i found a thing called a hill sphere, are these the same? If not, what is the difference? thx | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 12:01 | vote | accept | Mister J | ||
| Feb 1, 2021 at 11:56 | history | answered | Frotaur | CC BY-SA 4.0 |