How Minmus was formed

[katyjsst]

Many people wanted me to explain how Minmus was formed.

Minmus is probably a dwarf planet or comet nucleus.

Minmus might probably be flunged out of it's stable orbit from the outer Kerbol System by probably a giant planet like Jool. In the outer kerbol system, minmus is fully solidified. Somehow, Jool flunged minmus into the inner kerbol system. Sending Minmus's Perihelion (Periapsis) below Kerbin's Orbit, and into a eccentric orbit.

Once it approaches Moho's Orbit, its "ice" melts forming lakes that are seen around the equator. As Minmus begins to be flunged out back into the outer kerbol system again, it had coincidentally been captured by Kerbin. Kerbin, then slowed Minmus's orbit.

With the help of the mün, Minmus gained stable eccentricity but due to other gravitational influences, Minmus orbit was inclined. As Minmus's ice freezes again at Kerbin's orbit, frozen lakes on Minmus are basically frozen.

These are theories of course.

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Edited July 27, 2013 by Rich

[Dusty926]

Very interesting...I wonder what Jeb thinks of these theories.

[KAO]

wait! we still need to name the Kerbol system version of the Oort Cloud!

[LaydeeDem]

Uurt Cloud

[Bluejayek]

Kerbin doesn't even have orbital seasons, as its orbit is perfectly symetric. Interesting.

Perhaps the lack of a tilt comes about from minimus... Kerbin had a tilt at one point, but a predecessor of the Kerman race lit a giant explosion while attempting to launch their first rocket which caused a large hunk of rock and space cheese (now known as minimus) to be ejected from kerbin, removing kerbins tilt.

It sort of makes sense.

I like this explanation better

[Tim_Barrett]

Our ancient ancestors where actually technologically advanced beyond anyone's belief. Doing so, they had discovered all planets and other systems of interest until their boredom had destroyed their own home planet when attempting to make a 5-mile long rocket to no where.

During launch, someone forgot to move the rocket over to the side in the VAB causing it to crash into the launch tower, thus creating such a fireball that sent out a fifth of Kerbin's mass into orbit around it, both flipping the poles of Kerbin (and making it perfectly inclined at 0 degrees) and additionally creating the Mun. Evidence shows that crater is within the Wakirian Sea, where the island of Kortuga lies inside of the geographical anomaly, the center of the crater.

A distress signal made it to a nearby colony on Gilly orbiting Eve, a planet they were currently trying to terraform into a habitable and sustainable ecosphere from a purple poisonous rock (This explains Eve as an incomplete life-giving planet). They dropped everything, and sent out their remaining crew to look for survivors on Kerbin. A second ship was sent out of the system to have a better chance at contacting colonies from the closest neighboring star, and then they had proceeded to take all of their inhabitants back to Kerbin. This would have taken hundreds of years.

Due to the abnormally dense material that the Mun and everything else in this universe is made out of, it formed rather quickly from the debris in space around Kerbin. Without expectation, they were on an inevitable collision course with the Mun. Rumor says it that the largest emergency craft left the mothership and slingshot itself past the planet and into deep space, never to be found. The mothership suffered an explosive fate.

This explosion by itself slowed down the Mun so fast that it circularized it's orbit, but also taking a chunk from it's form, creating the belt far from Kerbin that would create Minmus.

Some how, Kerbin was repopulated from an unknown source, possibly ejection pods from the Mothership that had orbited for long enough to get living beings down to the surface when it would be habitable again. Thousands of more years go by, and we are here now, just to repeat history, again...

...and that's how Equestria was made!

[MedwedianPresident]

I think a asteroid impacted into kerbin's ocean, some water flied into space and was then frozen.

[Ascensiam]

Nice story tim, 7/10 for the launchpad accident.

I think a asteroid impacted into kerbin's ocean, some water flied into space and was then frozen.

I believe harv stated in a screenshot that it is methane. This is why i stick to my perception of it as a captured asteroid or an enourmous god fart.

[SNapple]

Maybe kerbin's atmosphere used to extend out to Minmus, but was very thin. The atmo was quickly brought down to Kerbin, but the outer atmo was travelling at orbital speeds from Kerbin's spin. Of course, a Keostationary orbit is below the Mun, but the atmo wasn't spinning as fast as Kerbin, a cause of wind on Earth. So Minmus formed, as a frozen sphere of water, or perhaps with it being Methane/kethane, the atmo used to be Methane/kethane-rich but then something happened. But anyway, there was a collision with two icy asteroids, and the cloud of snow left behind hit the outer parts of the Kerbin system, covering Minmus in these mountains, and someone else can think of why the lakes are exposed.