How much do asteroids weigh?

[Yukon0009]

Just wondering.

Class A through E? As in, the range of weights?

[Peder]

Just wondering.

Class A through E? As in, the range of weights?

hmmm a really good question..: Well I recommend to bring them back to kerbin and lower them into a swimming pool.

Then we can mesure how much wather that are displaced/disaper and calculate it.

Have a look at this page for the correct formula and wiki about astroides..: http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Asteroidhttp://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Asteroid

The asteroid's mass can be estimated with the following formula, obtained experimentally. This is only an estimate as the masses of asteroids even within the same size class varies significantly.

M=e^{{1.5\cdot x}}

Where:

M is the mass in tonnes

x is the class (A = 1 and E = 5)

. Assuming a range of ±0.5 for x gives the following approximate ranges for each class:

A: 2.1 ~ 9.5 tons

B: 9.5 ~ 42.5 tons

C: 42.5 ~ 190.6 tons

D: 190.6 ~ 854 tons

E: 854 ~ 3,828 tons

[klesh]

Funny, i just accepted a contract to land a class A at Kerbin. I think I brought up somewhere in the neighborhood of 26 Mk2-R's and 5 Mk-16-XL's, which now appears to be hugely over-chuted. I havent attached them yet, so maybe I'll dial back a bit.