What is Minmus made of?

[Spacestronaut]

It's frozen pool water, of course.

[KerikBalm]

As its been suggested and explained multiple times in the past 3 pages.... No

If it was frozen water, it would have all sublimated long ago.

[KerbalKid]

Mint mashed... potatos? but seriously it's probably a comet.

[Superfluous J]

On 5/14/2016 at 10:33 PM, Fireheart318 said:

Astronaut ice cream wasn't actually a thing. Space bacon was.

 

On 5/16/2016 at 7:06 PM, fredinno said:

Wait what? Source?

Q.E.D.

[Zaphod12]

Duh, it's made of lots of minty chewing gum

[Fireheart318]

2 hours ago, 5thHorseman said:

 

Q.E.D.

 

The space bacon part was Scott Manely, I'm pretty sure the astronaut ice cream part was SciShow. Whatever it was, it was definitely a creditable source (learned about it a while ago). Wow. I can remember the exact layout of the toy train track I built at my dad's house 13 years ago, but I can't remember where I learned about astronaut ice cream being a lie

On October 16, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Hans Dorn said:

MINMUS IS PEOPLE!!11!!!

 

A bit more seriously, Minmus reminds me of this stuff:

 

 

Ammonium iron sulfate

 

Dammit! You beat me to it!  Can I at least leave the link? It's super cool! 

 

[Diche Bach]

What is Minmus?

It is either (i) a figment of a game designers imagination(s') with little or no viability as an accurate representation of a realworld celestial object; or it is (ii) a figment of a game designers imagination(s') with some credible viability as a realistic representation of a celestial object.

The only person(s) who might know for certain are the guy(s)/gal(s) who designed it into the game, and if the answer is (i) then they might be understandably reticent. Designers who have come along subsequently might also be reticent for similar reasons, and the owner of the IP would almost never have any great interest in expressing any views on the subject (given they probably don't know the first thing about most of the subjects involved, i.e., cosmology, chemistry, physics, games, gamer culture, or theorycrafting).

Based on some informative posts in this thread by folks with far more knowledge of chemistry and physics than me, I gather that the balance of evidence weighs toward (i) and not (ii).

But ultimately, who cares. It is a fun and humorous element in a fun and humorous game, which otherwise, generally has done a fine job of accurately reflecting naturalistic phenomena . . . well at least enough to get the basic subjects of the game covered (space flight and aeronautics).

Edited October 18, 2016 by Diche Bach
clarification

[LordFerret]

Sugar and spice and everything nice ..... no ... wait ... that's what little girls are made of. Never mind.

 

 

On 10/16/2016 at 4:29 PM, Hans Dorn said:

MINMUS IS PEOPLE!!11!!!

 

A bit more seriously, Minmus reminds me of this stuff:

 

 

Ammonium iron sulfate

That's actually Ferrous sulfate. You need to add Ammonium sulfate to get Ammonium iron sulfate...

...which definitely looks more like Minmus.

[foamyesque]

18 hours ago, KerikBalm said:

As its been suggested and explained multiple times in the past 3 pages.... No

If it was frozen water, it would have all sublimated long ago.

 

Look, it's obviously made of mint ice cream. The reason it hasn't melted is because it's being refrigerated, the hyperdense means for which also account for the out-of-whack gravity.

 

Q.E.D.

[Monkey Taylor]

Minmus, I'd say the surface is made out of Milky Quartz and the so called "lakes" are Ferrous Sulphite or molten Copper

 

EDIT: Oh, the cyan-turquoise effect of copper only works if the copper's been in oxygen, unless oxygen is rising from the surface. Which could mean it could blow at any point...

Edited November 22, 2016 by Evenus

[wossname]

I can't tell what it's made of but it sure does seem to be desserted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...like, cake and stuff.  Oh forget it.

[Overland]

Its made of Dres

The minty shell is just one of many dresses it wears

[Sharpy]

Various metal sulphates mixed with water ice.

Copper sulphate:

Iron sulphate:

Zinc sulphate:

 

 

[purpleivan]

Peppermint cream.

Because that would be too good not to be true.

[Alphard]

On 6. 4. 2016 at 9:25 PM, r_rolo1 said:

A perfectly circular orbit on a captured comet? Well, if you believe in that, I have a nice Eifell tower in Paris to sell you ...

Tidal force, secondary effect of gravity causes so called tidal circularization, which is responsible for lowering the orbital eccentricity.

[LordFerret]

On 11/23/2016 at 5:26 AM, Sharpy said:

Various metal sulphates mixed with water ice.

...

They all look so yummy!

 

Sour indeed!

Edited November 24, 2016 by LordFerret

[Sharpy]

2 minutes ago, LordFerret said:

They all look so yummy!

You can be pretty sure anything containing sulphur is at least moderately poisonous. Copper sulphate is more than moderately poisonous.

[cy4n]

In Kerbal mythology, Minmus was created during the Great Ice Cream Disaster, in which Minimus, the evil god of ice cream was vanquished and sent to space.

[StupidAndy]

minmus is just ice dyed green by the krakens blood

[Wallygator]

Minus is made of bits of...

No sorry, just Bits.