Confused about asteroids speed, and impact velocity

[Sokar408]

So like the rest of you I tried out the new content. However I had a very specific quest in mind! I remember I saw someone on a livestream ridering an asteroid down to the surface, and noticed that the rock would pretty much slow down to about 150 m/s loooong before hitting the surface. Now this might just be my ignorance talking but that didn't seem very realistic, but I thought the asteroid might just have come in at a shallow angle, giving it time to decelerate.

So I went in and found an asteroid that would pretty much hit the planet straight on, met up with it, and rode it down to see if it would be more... impactful (Word inventing!). To my disappointment no. The asteroid hit the atmosphere at 3.5k m/sec but at the altitude of 5k meters, it had pretty much decelerated to terminal velocity.

So is it just me, or this a bit weird?

Beyond that though... I LOVE THE UPDATE!

[TheDarkStar]

It's an effect of the drag system. I once used the Orion engine mod to go at 100km/s straight at Kerbin, and the atmosphere STILL slowed me down to about 150 m/s.

[Sokar408]

It's an effect of the drag system. I once used the Orion engine mod to go at 100km/s straight at Kerbin, and the atmosphere STILL slowed me down to about 150 m/s.

Would far remedy this problem?

[Taki117]

Would far remedy this problem?

Almost certainly.

[federally]

You can't expect anything remotely resembling realism with the games current aero model.

[zarakon]

So why hasn't FAR been integrated into the main game yet...