What's your weirdest Conic?

[TimberWolffe]

Title basically. Post the weirdest patched conic you've ever had, or tell a story about it if you don't have a picture!

 

[Jarin]

I love playing around Jool. A couple orbits past this, it caught Tylo again and got flung out of Jool's SOI.

[Yakky]

Not all that crazy, but a pretty picture.  This was a low-dV capture into Ike orbit that was facilitated by a double flyby. 

 

Edited October 11, 2016 by Yakky
fixed imgur link

[Yakky]

 

Another interesting one.  It was a mega-funds contract to get a Class E asteroid into orbit around Gilly (Eve moon).  I nudged the asteroid into a two-body flyby of Kerbin and the Mun that pretty much reversed its direction relative to Kerbin, which slowed it considerably relative to the Sun and brought it very close to Eve.  I probably spent an hour tweaking this maneuver node to get it just right.

[Allocthonous]

Wobbly! This was a surface mining rig headed for minmus insertion. Its engines were mounted at the far ends of three horizontally attached orange tanks, but I don't think there was that much wobble to the ship. Once I got into minmus' SOI everything was normal.

[TimberWolffe]

8 hours ago, Allocthonous said:

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Wobbly! This was a surface mining rig headed for minmus insertion. Its engines were mounted at the far ends of three horizontally attached orange tanks, but I don't think there was that much wobble to the ship. Once I got into minmus' SOI everything was normal.

I think that beats mine a bit XD

[Pixel of Life]

9 hours ago, Allocthonous said:

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Wobbly! This was a surface mining rig headed for minmus insertion. Its engines were mounted at the far ends of three horizontally attached orange tanks, but I don't think there was that much wobble to the ship. Once I got into minmus' SOI everything was normal.

This used to happen to me a lot whenever I went to Bop or Pol.

[magnemoe]

9 hours ago, Allocthonous said:

 

Wobbly! This was a surface mining rig headed for minmus insertion. Its engines were mounted at the far ends of three horizontally attached orange tanks, but I don't think there was that much wobble to the ship. Once I got into minmus' SOI everything was normal.

How does it look then focusing on Minmus?

One confusing conic you can get is an interrupted ellipse, had one low speed encounter with Tylo who looked like I was about to enter Tylo orbit except an small gap between entering and exiting Tylo SOI one orbit later, cost me around a m/s to enter orbit
 

[Allocthonous]

5 hours ago, magnemoe said:

How does it look then focusing on Minmus?

Completely normal. There was nothing strange about the actual orbit at all, just the conic.