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Kerbin as seen from low orbit

Kerbin is the planet where the Space Center is located and the main focus of Kerbal Space Program. It has a single moon named Mun. It orbits the M class star Kerbol.

Characteristics

• Equatorial Radius: 600 km

• Mass: 5.29e22 kg

• Density: 58.467 g/mL

• Surface Gravity: 9.8068 m/s^2

• Gravitational parameter: 3530.461 km^3/s^2

• Escape velocity from surface: 3430.45 m/s

• Rotation Period: 6 hours; Rotation: 60 degrees per hour, or 174.5 m/s at the equator

• Kerbosynchronous Orbit altitude: 2868.4 km; Kerbostationary Orbit velocity: 1008.9 m/s

Orbital Characteristics

• Parent Body: Kerbol

• Semi-Major Axis: 13,599,842,304m or 0.0909092522 Astronomical Units (A.U.)

• Velocity: 9284.5 m/s

• Orbital Period: 2,543 hours, or 106 Earth days

• Sphere of influence: ~ 84,275 km or 140 body radii

Topography

Kerbin has a roughly equal distribution of liquid water and solid land, with scattered deserts, polar icecaps. In the demo (0.13.3), some mountain ranges exceed 600 m in height.[1] In the registered version (since 0.14.2), a new terrain engine has resulted in mountains exceeding 3200 m in height.

Atmosphere

Kerbin has an atmosphere of unknown composition. The atmosphere gets exponentially less dense as altitude increases (5 km scale height), and ends at 69,077.55 meters [2][3]

Natural Satellites

Kerbin has a single moon, The Mun.

Reference Frames

Rotational/Inertial transition: 69,950 m

See Also

• Universe
• Star
• Moon
• Asteroid