Pluto Orbital period is only 6.4Days? how!

[~$iLa$ gReAvE$~]

The further the planets are away from the sun, longer the orbits right? even neptune has orbit period of 60,190 days

[Lich Lord]

Orbital...as in the station? that orbits the planet pluto every 6.4 days? Or do you mean the rotational cycle of the planet Pluto not the orbital rotation around the Sun?.

[Sapyx]

Pluto and Charon are classified as a "double planet" in this game. They are orbiting each other, with a period of 6.4 days.

The two planets are orbiting around the barycentre, their common centree of gravity. This barycentre is what can be considered to be orbiting the Sun, but because it's a mathematical construct and not a physical object, there isn;t anything int he game that currently allows you to select it and see the length of Pluto's year. This is true for all other double and multiple planets and stars in the game as well; there's no way to tell the length of their year.

[Agony_Aunt]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

Pluto's rotation period, its day, is equal to 6.39 Earth days.

[~$iLa$ gReAvE$~]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

Pluto's rotation period, its day, is equal to 6.39 Earth days.

I'm talking about the pluto's orbit around the sun which takes 248 earth years to complete one orbit.

[The Haney]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

Pluto's rotation period, its day, is equal to 6.39 Earth days.

Rotation =/= orbit.

[Agony_Aunt]

In this context its referring to its orbit with charon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28moon%29

Orbital period 6.3872304±0.0000011 d

Most main planets have their barycenter close to the star they orbit.

Its a quirk of the game engine in that in the case of binary objects it displays their rotation around each other.

Suppose it could be considered a bug, or FD might want to add an extra field to differentiate between orbit around each other in the case of binary objects and their orbits around the primary.