atmospheric vs minor vs planetary Bodies.

seanth

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Jul 7, 2026
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Years ago I worked on the KSP mod "To Boldly Go" that procedurally made star systems and planets for KSP. I was looking at how KSA defines stars and planets and some distinctions are not totally clear to me.

I understand that atmosphericBodies have an atmosphere. But why wouldn't I just use atmosphericBody without a defined atmosphere to make a body like Luna or Mercury?

And for minorBody, there's a IsTidallyLocked value in the rotation node. Will that work if put into atmosphericBodies or planetaryBodies?

What I'm really asking is why do these differences exist? Why not just Body that either has or does not have nodes that defines whether it has a atmosphere, etc?