Asteorid hit Kerbin!

[Schtiebuu]

Haha ive found an Asteroid with an collision curse on Kerbin!

Did it happend bevore?

Edited September 13, 2016 by Schtiebuu

[Mystique]

Happens all the time, who cares if those potatoes get burned during reentry anyway?

[Sharpy]

A good opportunity to get it into the orbit. Not much dV needed to alter the course, Oberth means reducing apoapsis will be cheap, though if I'm not mistaken, it comes from below - in such inclination it is useless, you'd need to do a plane change and that takes both fuel and time. Though if it's a Class E, I'd go for it.

[Tex_NL]

Indeed it happens all the time. And there is absolutely nothing to worry about. Just like Schrödinger's Cat it will only exist if as long as you're looking at it. Nothing will happen when you ignore it.
And if you did focus on it to see the impact still not much will happen. NO crater and NO nuclear winter.

Edited September 13, 2016 by Tex_NL

[nosirrbro]

The largest of KSP asteroids would burn up in the atmosphere as a rather bright and very slightly audible shooting star.

Edited September 13, 2016 by nosirrbro

[Schtiebuu]

ok thanks never seen this in KSP

[Diche Bach]

What the heck are the good for "in orbit" though? Fuel? Science? Real Estate?

[Slam_Jones]

2 minutes ago, Diche Bach said:

What the heck are the good for "in orbit" though? Fuel? Science? Real Estate?

Bragging rights, I imagine.

"Look what we did!"

[Corona688]

The very first asteroid I ever tracked was dead on-course for Kerbin.  I tracked 3 more to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding something -- nope, just that one.

It is no longer on course for Kerbin.

20 hours ago, Diche Bach said:

What the heck are the good for "in orbit" though? Fuel? Science? Real Estate?

Asteroids are incredibly fuel-rich.  They can be 80% ore or more.

Like any other rocket vehicle, though, changing its orbit any significant amount will mean pushing away a large percentage of that weight in reaction, either mined or brought from elsewhere.  So I'm not sold on the economics of asteroid capturing.  Either you've blown away a lot of its fuel to capture it, or you lifted up a ton of fuel to it.  (Unfortunately you can't really aerobrake them, it's like trying to aerobrake a snowcone.)

You might not need to change its orbit significantly, of course, not if you don't need it in LKO, emphasis on L. 

As a midpoint between two places, sure -- you could send a combo-pack of probes to solar orbit, grab an asteroid, and send them off all over the system on fuel you didn't have to lift from Kerbin.

Also, they can make handy bases.  Anything which latches onto an asteroid can share resources and power with anything else that's grabbed it.

Edited September 14, 2016 by Corona688

[something]

Well I am a bit disappointed of the absence of nuclear winter, impact craters and tsunamis in KSP...however, when landing my first potato in the oceans of Kerbin I was quite surprised at their density. I was literally thinking "what?!"