To heck with landing asteroids on the moon!

[Azuratte]

I will soon create my KSP rock garden!

[Whackjob]

I have a question. It'll be two or three days before I'm back in the game, quite figuratively, and I've been watching pretty much from the sidelines. I've been hearing of class A and B and C potatoroids. What is the difference between them? How large do they get?

[Azuratte]

Well, I've only caught a B and a C. This is B, that I've landed as a test to see if the system would allow chutes to deploy on the asteroid. Cool thing is, as soon as you attach anything with the claws it's just one big ship, so all the power/solar panels/computers/RCS worked as one ship. This probably should get changed in the future, but I'm happy to exploit it for now.

C-class isn't much bigger, I'm afraid the C class seemed to be twice this size, maybe a bit more. I'd show pictures but I hit it at mach 10 and blew up. There is tool tips in game to give you a better idea, maybe someone will have the game on and be able to copy them.

I'm hoping to get an E-class on radar soon, I heard they come in at 2500 ton or so. That'll have to be a multi mission parachute drop.

This was the ship that flew up to the B class. Final stage had 1 orange can and 6 Nukes and was just barely enough for the particular orbit and crappy piloting.

Yep, that's pretty much a x-mas tree of rocket engines on the bottom, no idea why I left the 1st stages so high up.

[turkwinif]

I have a question. It'll be two or three days before I'm back in the game, quite figuratively, and I've been watching pretty much from the sidelines. I've been hearing of class A and B and C potatoroids. What is the difference between them? How large do they get?

The difference between the asteroids are their sizes, A being the smallest (3-5 in diameters) and E being the largest (18+ meters). Apparently, according to the KSP Wiki, they can get to be as big as 30 meters.

[Whackjob]

Thanks all for the info. So the plan will be, once I'm up and running again, to grab a couple of class Es and do a powered landing on Kerbin.

Danke!

[Azuratte]

I'll see your powered landing and raise you a flown powered landing on KSP runway.

[merendel]

Thanks all for the info. So the plan will be, once I'm up and running again, to grab a couple of class Es and do a powered landing on Kerbin.

Danke!

I still think you should grab a class E and do a grand tour with it, powered landings on all planets with a surface.

[problemecium]

The size classes are kinda like Kaiju categories really. I await the day when a new patch comes out and someone goes "I was right - a triple event! ...a Class F, the first ever."

And of course the uber-asteroid would have tentacles to smack your rockets with. And one cubic meter of its crap could fertilize an entire field.

[vger]

The size classes are kinda like Kaiju categories really. I await the day when a new patch comes out and someone goes "I was right - a triple event! ...a Class F, the first ever."

And of course the uber-asteroid would have tentacles to smack your rockets with. And one cubic meter of its crap could fertilize an entire field.

I don't care if it's not realistic. KSP needs some random silly things like this.

Maybe the Kraken is actually out there... living inside a hollow asteroid... *shifty eyes*

[The Destroyer]

Well, I've only caught a B and a C. This is B, that I've landed as a test to see if the system would allow chutes to deploy on the asteroid. Cool thing is, as soon as you attach anything with the claws it's just one big ship, so all the power/solar panels/computers/RCS worked as one ship. This probably should get changed in the future, but I'm happy to exploit it for now.

C-class isn't much bigger, I'm afraid the C class seemed to be twice this size, maybe a bit more. I'd show pictures but I hit it at mach 10 and blew up. There is tool tips in game to give you a better idea, maybe someone will have the game on and be able to copy them.

I'm hoping to get an E-class on radar soon, I heard they come in at 2500 ton or so. That'll have to be a multi mission parachute drop.

http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b489/Azuratte/ScreenShot2014-04-03at82742PM_zps6d1fd96e.png

This was the ship that flew up to the B class. Final stage had 1 orange can and 6 Nukes and was just barely enough for the particular orbit and crappy piloting.

Yep, that's pretty much a x-mas tree of rocket engines on the bottom, no idea why I left the 1st stages so high up.

That has to be the most overpowered ship I've seen for a mere B class.

[RocketBlam]

It's interesting that you had the same idea for multiple attach points as I did.

[Sirrobert]

The size classes are kinda like Kaiju categories really. I await the day when a new patch comes out and someone goes "I was right - a triple event! ...a Class F, the first ever."

And of course the uber-asteroid would have tentacles to smack your rockets with. And one cubic meter of its crap could fertilize an entire field.

Isn't that just a kraken then?

[Holo]

The size classes are kinda like Kaiju categories really. I await the day when a new patch comes out and someone goes "I was right - a triple event! ...a Class F, the first ever."

And of course the uber-asteroid would have tentacles to smack your rockets with. And one cubic meter of its crap could fertilize an entire field.

I actually created a system that extended the asteroid classes out to infinity. Gilly is a Class T asteroid; Minmus is a Class W.

[kookoo_gr]

I have a question. It'll be two or three days before I'm back in the game, quite figuratively, and I've been watching pretty much from the sidelines. I've been hearing of class A and B and C potatoroids. What is the difference between them? How large do they get?

This is a class E asteroid i captured, it a tough one to maneuver and i had to move the tug ship back and forth (push-pull) in order to capture the asteroid at Kerbin's SOI

and that's a class A asteroid

[blizzy78]

I've been hearing of class A and B and C potatoroids. What is the difference between them? How large do they get?

Class A (right) and E (left) size comparison:

Also, Minmus in the top-left (not at ground level, obviously.)

[Padishar]

Class A (right) and E (left) size comparison:

Awww, you missed the VAB...

The first asteroid I captured was a class E (I thought I'd aim high) and has a mass of ~2450 tons. It is currently in a highly eccentric orbit at about 45 degrees to the equatorial plane so will take a bit of work to land on the VAB. My tug (4 LV-Ns and enough fuel for ~6500m/s deltaV) only had approx. 50 deltaV once I grabbed the rock but that was just enough for the capture burn. I'll need to design a new booster system that can be refuelled easily to do the inclination change and de-orbit burn required to drop it on the VAB...

[Bishop149]

There's quite some variation in size within a class too. I've grabbed a C of 40 tons and another C of 100 tons.

My Ion pusher Usually has about 10,000 m/s DeltaV by the time its gets in grabbing range of things.

I have it attached to a class B which I intend to push to Laythe orbit.

Planning on hooking it up to a Class E soon. . . wonder now much I'll have left. Hopefully enough for capture by Kerbin

Edit; BTW anyone seen a Class D? I have only seen A, B, C, E

[Xaelath]

The size classes are kinda like Kaiju categories really. I await the day when a new patch comes out and someone goes "I was right - a triple event! ...a Class F, the first ever."

And of course the uber-asteroid would have tentacles to smack your rockets with. And one cubic meter of its crap could fertilize an entire field.

That made my day, thank you. xD

[Virtualgenius]

When you right click asteroid and select target centre of mass is an icon supposed to come up as i get nothing

[Azuratte]

That has to be the most overpowered ship I've seen for a mere B class.

Yes, I may have actually arrived in orbit and achieved near escape velocity with the main lift stage at 10% fuel. I still had 2 stages to go. 80% of it was wasted in the end because of alignment burns I realized I didn't need also I ran out of RCS and blew around 500DV bouncing around going way to fast for approaches.

[Aragosnat]

When you right click asteroid and select target centre of mass is an icon supposed to come up as i get nothing

look at the nav ball and see the pink circle with dot in center.