A new way of asteroid grabbing?

[Tortoise]

I never tried this but I thought of an easier way.

How about using the anchor in KAS to drop it on the asteroid and pull it whereever you want it to go? Then you dont really need to think about aligning with the CoM and stuff.

[Rainbowtrout]

Or, just build a giant plate/scoop and attempt to "shunt" it to Kerbin.

[r4pt0r]

does the kas anchor have any stretch? id just be worried that right after a burn it would slingshot into your rear end

[Starwhip]

Build a gigantic centrifuge, and spin it out of Kerbin orbit.

Or, push Kerbin out of the way.

[ravensoul6@hotmail.com]

I had thought of doing this too, I haven't tried it though. I wonder, when you stop accelerating would the asteroid come forward and hit you? Or not because you've both got the same speed relative to one another...

[merendel]

from personal experience trying to tow an object much heavier than my craft with a KAS winch theres far to much spring in the line. In my case I was attached to a container with about 300 tons of metal. even with the line streched taunt I ended up surgeing forward and springing back once I turned on the gas. if you are very very gentle on throttling up you might avoid that. The other problem is you still need to care about the COM of what your towing. if you are not flying strait away from the COM you'll swing tward it. if you were prety close it wont be much and you might stabalize although possibly off vector. If your further off alignment you'll swing like a pendulum and may not regain controll without crashing. your better off with a ridged connection to the object you want to move.

[Vanamonde]

This question about how to play the game has been moved to the gameplay questions sub-forum. Carry on.

[Taki117]

KAS Would work surprisingly well.

See My Mission Here for how I did it, Though I didn't use anchors, I used the Connector port, but it worked just as well.