A rock unlike any I've ever seen

[Parkaboy]

I was just testing a new design for a rover-plane hybrid, when I found a rock. I've spotted it just as I was landing a few km northeast from the KSC, to test how my vessel fared on rough ground. Here it is:

First I thought it was an asteroid, which lead me to wonder: it isn't hare to have asteroids impacting Kerbin, but don't they just disappear when it happens "off screen"? It's kind of a philosophical question: if a rock falls on Kerbin and nobody is looking, does it leave a trace?

There are two problems with my first theory: the rock is too small to be an asteroid (I think), and it doesn't seem to be affected by physics. I can just walk through it, and it doesn't move: just stays there, impossibly balanced on one of its corners. I guess it's just terrain scatter, but I had never seen any rock like that on Kerbin. Is it common? What are your thoughts?

[merendel]

Asteroids are just parts, Like any other part that enters the atmosphere when physics are not loaded they dissapear at 20km or so. In short no not an asteroid that landed off camera unless you followed it in yourself. That said they have a silly high impact tolerance if you attach a probe core to them and then "Fly" the thing through reentry there is a very good chance that its terminal velocity will be lower than its impact tolerance and it will bounce when it hits the ground. will also probably crush the probe but the asteroid will be on the ground.

[cantab]

Indeed its very presence, its non-solidness, and its texture rule out it being an asteroid.

Do you have terrain scatter turned on, and are there similar-looking (but not balanced) rocks to be found nearby? If so, it's a misplaced bit of terrain scatter. If not, it may be a deliberately placed easter egg.

[katateochi]

Terrain scatter does produce some odd rocks that appear to defy physics. I've found a few that where just floating a few inches off the ground, this one was from a while ago on Duna;

[problemecium]

Yeah, this is no doubt a terrain scatter. It happens all the time, and I've seen several floating rocks myself - and once a floating cactus. They're not hard to find if you keep an eye out while flying around places.

Personally I end up looking at a LOT of terrain scatters while trying to re-discover easter eggs, so it's lost its novelty value ^^;

[Parkaboy]

Yeah, I have terrain scatter on, but I've never seen a rock like this one on Kerbin. I've seen some floating rocks, but they're usually among a lot of other similar rocks. This part of Kerbin had a few trees here and there, and this rock was the only one I could find in the area. It's funny how it did looked like it was standing in the ground in a manner very similar to asteroids that survive impact.

[Othuyeg]

The department of experimental sciency stuff has advised me to inform you that these observations can not be scientifically proven to be in any way related to any experiments that are definetly not being conducted. They were very keen on explaining that especially no experiments that definetly are not being even considered would in any case involve anti-gravitational fields, levitation or something they called a "resonance cascade".

[Felsmak]

It's the rock.

[Kasuha]

There are multiple terrain scatter objects on Kerbin and these rocks are one of them, they're just rare. I found one lying on sand beach on a small island where I landed my plane.