What if I don't bother with the asteroids?

[Renaissance0321]

Say a massive asteroid is on a collision course to Kerbin and I don't really care. What happens?

Edited April 4, 2014 by Renaissance0321

[700NitroXpress]

It goes poof and disappears.

[cantab]

If you don't bother the asteroids, the asteroids won't bother you

[Superfluous J]

If you ignore an asteroid for a day or two (in-game) they vanish.

Even if they didn't, when they hit Kerbin they would cause no damage.

[Renaissance0321]

Would be cool if you could toggle Armageddon mode so it would destroy Kerbin. Oh well

[Specialist290]

Unfortunately, I don't think even the largest asteroids in-game are large enough to be truly world-ending even if that was a possibility. But yes, I'm hoping they'll eventually make things a bit more dramatic myself

[KerbMav]

A big badda-poof upon impact would be sufficient for me, I am not even expecting craters or something.

There is a part file for asteroids in the NASA folder, yes? Wondering what miracles modders can do here.

When I doubleclick a tracked asteroid in the observatory it says "Cannot control an object that we do not own" or something along the line - could it be that the asteroids incorporate some new code from the upcoming multiplayer mode already, which makes sure that one player cannot destroy stuff from another?

[Seret]

It would be nice to have an animation for burning up when they de-spawn.

[Javster]

If you don't bother the asteroids, the asteroids won't bother you

In Kerbal Russia, asteroid bothered by YOU!

[cantab]

A big badda-poof upon impact would be sufficient for me, I am not even expecting craters or something.

I wonder if lowering the drag coefficient would help, by allowing the asteroids to fall faster.

But of course you'll still only see the impact if you actually go to the asteroid and follow it down.