Maintaining orbital relationships

[B-McKinley]

Is there a way to keep child bodies locked to the parent when orbiting the parent orbital info? I want to tidy up/double check the numbers on a fictional sim, but if I move a planet a little to far or to a different spot in its orbit all of the moons end up orbiting the star.

Sidebar: Undo would be handy. I accidentally turned an asteroid into a nova remnant with a typo and burned up an entire solar system.

[Deadpangod3]

I accidentally turned an asteroid into a nova remnant with a typo and burned up an entire solar system.

what kind of typo did you make?!?!
i tend to mess up mass and such, but not a big enough typo to turn an asteroid into a STAR...

[B-McKinley]

I was pasting in values and forgot to switch to the correct units. Kg, earths, what's the difference? Apparently a very large explosion is the difference.

[vmorgo]

I second this question, especially with regard to placing moons into orbit about planets orbiting a red dwarf.  (Even getting Earth's moon to stay in orbit about the earth is quite difficult in the Solar System simulation--that's why the moon is not included in that sim!).  Indeed, to date, I have never been able to create a planet-moon system within the habitable zone of any red dwarf.  Creating a double planet (like that described in the SF story "Rocheworld") is just plain not hap'nin' here...

 

[Physics_Hacker]

I second this question, especially with regard to placing moons into orbit about planets orbiting a red dwarf.  (Even getting Earth's moon to stay in orbit about the earth is quite difficult in the Solar System simulation--that's why the moon is not included in that sim!).  Indeed, to date, I have never been able to create a planet-moon system within the habitable zone of any red dwarf.  Creating a double planet (like that described in the SF story "Rocheworld") is just plain not hap'nin' here...

 

I've made plenty of Earthlike-planet/moon systems around red dwarves...

[Greenleaf]

I second this question, especially with regard to placing moons into orbit about planets orbiting a red dwarf.  (Even getting Earth's moon to stay in orbit about the earth is quite difficult in the Solar System simulation--that's why the moon is not included in that sim!).  Indeed, to date, I have never been able to create a planet-moon system within the habitable zone of any red dwarf.  Creating a double planet (like that described in the SF story "Rocheworld") is just plain not hap'nin' here...

 

Please consider this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere


I saw a similar question somewhere else where the issue was also that the planet and star star were simply so close that no stable moon orbit existed. By "no stable orbit exist" I mean that the physics of the situation is such that the moon will have its orbit changed by the gravitational pull of the star and since we model the physics, what the physics says goes.

[Darvince]

I was pasting in values and forgot to switch to the correct units. Kg, earths, what's the difference? Apparently a very large explosion is the difference.

In the case of this mistake, a simple solution would be to pause the simulator so that nothing explodes as you change it. I find that it really gets out of whack if you try and edit it without pausing it, and even without going into editing mode, which I can't remember if it's in US² but I'm almost certain it is.