Filling The Moholes with Asteroids

[box_brain]

I am very curious to see if someone actually wants to attempt this. Just imagine a giant ball-pit of E-class asteroids! Thoughts?

[Captain Sierra]

I am very curious to see if someone actually wants to attempt this. Just imagine a giant ball-pit of E-class asteroids! Thoughts?

Do you have any idea how hard it would be to lug anything bigger than a B class down there? Bloody difficult. But that would come with some serious bragging rights.

[AustralianFries]

Do you have any idea how hard it would be to lug anything bigger than a B class down there? Bloody difficult. But that would come with some serious bragging rights.

Not to mention actually freakin getting to Moho tugging a rock along in the first place.

[MKI]

This screams either an endless grind of refueling for a single mission of an E class to moho. Or... hacks and cheats.

[box_brain]

I'm currently chasing an A-class asteroid atm, skipper engine all the way!

[AustralianFries]

Just thought of an awesome game idea.

Moho Golf!

Deorbit an asteroid from above Low Moho Orbit and try to make it in one of the holes!

[box_brain]

Great idea! definitly gonna try that out with this a-class asteroid

[box_brain]

I've never attempted this, but what happens when an asteroid hits an airless body at a very high speed?

[astropapi1]

I've never attempted this, but what happens when an asteroid hits an airless body at a very high speed?

*poof*

. . . . .

[Werwolf]

*waits for Whackjob comment*

[box_brain]

There goes my dreams:(

[RocketPilot573]

I visited the Moholes just a few months ago, it's like 2 Km across at the top... E class asteroids may be like 50 meters wide (the one I have is), but that will still take a lot at rocks...

[cantab]

My main concern is how far down would even a big E class sit, and what happens to an asteroid resting on top of it but not clawed once you leave physics range?

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

My main concern is how far down would even a big E class sit, and what happens to an asteroid resting on top of it but not clawed once you leave physics range?

The same thing with parts, they clip through or nothing, as asteroids are treated as essentially non-player created parts.

[Nemecle]

This challenge seems interesting but, I saw on an imgur album that Asteroïds are clipping through each other : it might be a major flaw...

[nobbers12345]

Just use a bunch of gravity assists to get there.

But you still need an absolute crapload of them.

[Brun]

Just thought of an awesome game idea.

Moho Golf!

Deorbit an asteroid from above Low Moho Orbit and try to make it in one of the holes!

You should take this to the challenge forums ASAP.

[Scotius]

Guys, apparently many of you do not understand how notoriously difficult even regular mission to Moho can be. This planet is a d*** Any maneuver so deep in Kerbol's gravity well costs a lot of fuel. I start to feel moderately safe only if my ship carries about 10 000 dV. Good luck packing so much dV on a asteroid tug.

[Brun]

Guys, apparently many of you do not understand how notoriously difficult even regular mission to Moho can be. This planet is a d*** Any maneuver so deep in Kerbol's gravity well costs a lot of fuel. I start to feel moderately safe only if my ship carries about 10 000 dV. Good luck packing so much dV on a asteroid tug.

Best way to do it would probably be to get clever with Eve gravity assists.

[DerpenWolf]

Challenge accepted.

Or at least once I get done messing around with the real size kerbal system mod thing with ferram and a bunch other realism mods, so far it's been crazy fun. And sure I've never landed anything on Moho before but this is a neat idea for a first mission!

Edited April 19, 2014 by DerpenWolf

[CatastrophicFailure]

Was just thinking about this myself the other day... Followed by the thought that such a person who would seriously contemplate actually doing so probably has a chair lined with broken glass and snorts angry wasps for motivation.

Like someone already said, Moho is a ****.

But subbed for the lulz anyway!

[merendel]

Stock no way would I have the patience for that. Once maybe but it would take hours with dozens of refuel missions to get even a single class E into the moholes. if you mod in KSP interstelar each individual mission may not be too bad with warp drive and antimater powered tugs with crazy high ISP but it would still be a very tedious exercise dragign who knows how many out there to try and fill that thing. Asumeing things dont glitch out and start cliping through and destroying the roids you'd probably have no framerate once you had a few hundred landed in there.

[Hello moto]

Whackjob doesn't move the asteroids, he moves Moho to collect the asteroids, like some giant hungry whale.

[Richy teh space man]

Just thought of an awesome game idea.

Moho Golf!

Deorbit an asteroid from above Low Moho Orbit and try to make it in one of the holes!

Now this sounds like an interesting challenge

[Moar Boosters]

Best way to do it would probably be to get clever with Eve gravity assists.

An Eve Gravity assist isn't that useful for going to Moho because the main difficulty is slowing down once you actually get there, and Eve isn't going to do a thing to assist with that.