Asteroids automatically enters orbit!

[AeroAviation]

So I decided to create a new game save for KSP and when I opened up the tracking station I found a class A asteroid in a near (if not perfect) polar orbit with a periapsis of about 460 KM and a Apoapsis of about 60 million KM in orbit around Kerbin, is this a bug or something?

Edited April 28, 2014 by AeroAviation

[blizzy78]

Random number generator is random.

[Random Tank]

Random number generator is random.

I'd be disappointed if it wasn't....

[biohazard15]

Yes, that happens fairly often. I had two asteroids that spawned that way. Unfortunately, one of them was too close to the Mun ans eventually was sling-shot off the system. Second is still there, though.

BTW, even rocks that spawned outside Kerbin SoI can be captured - if they fly close enough to the Mun or Minmus to slow them down.

[Tex]

I haven't had any that generated in such a fashion before, but I've had a fair few that got captured. Remember he famous lines:

In an infinite universe, all things are possible.

[Shna_na]

Yep, it is meant to happen. Think of it like the discovery of a new moon that no-one knew was there before because it's too small to see without such advanced technology or something.

I had a similar scenario - a class C asteroid captured itself in a near-polar orbit around Kerbin that had an apoasis of ~68000km and a periapsis of ~200km. I daren't rendezvous with it at periapsis, that'd be going damn fast from an orbit like that. And rendezvous at a high altitude means using up some of the fuel that should be used for moving the 'stroid on something as trivial as extending my orbit.