Weird asteroid orbit

[magnemoe]

How is this orbit possible? 

Yes asteroids can be captured by Mun but this require their orbit to might intercept Mun SOI at some time. This is not the case here. The Ap is also very low for an bug on SOI enter and its obviously first pass. 
No aerobraking only works if in control or close to target. 

[Kerbart]

[KerbMav]

Rather minimalistic result of asteroids "Intentionally" (gamecode) created as impactors?

[magnemoe]

1 minute ago, KerbMav said:

Rather minimalistic result of asteroids "Intentionally" (gamecode) created as impactors?

Sounds weird but I like it I need 100 m/s to get it into an orbit then an burn at Pe to eject if from system and getting 1.4 mill funds. 

[Superfluous J]

IIRC asteroids can spawn within Kerbin's SOI by chance and be given a velocity to orbit Sun, so it could have actually spawned that way naturally.

[KerbMav]

3 hours ago, magnemoe said:

Sounds weird but I like it I need 100 m/s to get it into an orbit then an burn at Pe to eject if from system and getting 1.4 mill funds. 

Oh, so it is a contract? That would explain it.

[swjr-swis]

I've had a number of asteroids spawn in closed orbits around Kerbin, without any contracts, on pure stock installs. I think @5thHorseman has it right that it's a side-effect of the regular asteroid spawning code, it just happens to pop up within Kerbin SoI with a velocity that makes it an automatic capture. Rare, but possible.

When the patch hit that introduced the new glimmeroids... I immediately had one spawn in closed orbit around Kerbin on the first game load. Stupid me, I reverted and restarted to test if it would change the colour, and since then it's never, not once anymore, been a glimmeroid.

 

[magnemoe]

1 hour ago, KerbMav said:

Oh, so it is a contract? That would explain it.

Contract is pretty old, Just luck that I spotted it in the tracking center and its an very short lived event. less than 4 days to impact and caught it early. 
Might randomly spawned, might also have glitched out entering SOI during an load of other craft. 

[Guest]

I've always gotten one or two of these in my playthroughs within the first year, most of them on a collision course with Kerbin. No contracts.

It's a shame nothing happens when asteroids hit Kerbin. Would be cool for impact sites to generate, give planes and Kerbin rovers a nice use.