So I captured an asteroid, now what?

[TerminalV]

So I captured my first asteroid last night. I have been playing in the contract career mode since 0.24 came out. Managed to get hooked onto a Class-C asteroid and put in in a fairly circular orbit at an altitude just outside of Mun but inclined a bit over 45 degrees. I did an EVA and transmitted that science back. I did a second EVA and kept that sample on my space craft. That's where I left it. I still have a lot of fuel left but probably not enough parachutes to try to land it. Is there anything else I can do with it that would be useful or get me some more science points from it? How bad would it be if I sent it crashing into Kerbin or Mun? Any and all suggestions on what I could do with it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[DeepSpaceDutch]

Try to get it into Munar orbit and build a space station on it!

[TerminalV]

Try to get it into Munar orbit and build a space station on it!

I was thinking about that. Are there any tricks for getting more science out of it. I was surprised how little samples where worth.

Edited August 29, 2014 by TerminalV

[cantab]

Asteroid surface samples act like other experiments, so you get different results in different situations, with varying multipliers. So if you can get it to fly past the Mun or Minmus you can get more science from that. Unless the game's been changed landing at Kerbin won't be worth much science, land it somewhere else for bigger points.

[TerminalV]

Asteroid surface samples act like other experiments, so you get different results in different situations, with varying multipliers. So if you can get it to fly past the Mun or Minmus you can get more science from that. Unless the game's been changed landing at Kerbin won't be worth much science, land it somewhere else for bigger points.

So if I get it into low Mun orbit I can get science for each Biomem I pass over like doing EVA's?

[cantab]

I don't *think* it's biome-sensitive, but I may be wrong. But even if it isn't you can still get a result for "in space high" and another for "in space low", and both will be worth I think 3 or 4 times what you got for the samples in Kerbin orbit.

For future asteroids, if you intercept them in solar orbit you can often arrange a gravity assist from Kerbin and get them to Duna or Eve without needing much delta V. Makes a cool mission and will give a really nice science return.

[Kevin Kyle]

I landed one right at the space center in the previous build. Only part I hated about that is you couldnt see it when in the view of the space center. I also wanted to move it over to one of the buildings but I couldnt figure out how to do that on stock parts.

I liked the suggestion above about putting it in Munar orbit and building a space station on it. I may have to do that one myself.

[Levelord]

Try licking it.

[Felsmak]

Adopt it and give it a name.

I named mine Selma.

[montyben101]

Install the Asteroid Recycling Technologies mod and get mining!!

[goduranus]

You could enter the asteroid capture challenge

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/90119-Kerbal-Space-Center-Asteroid-Recovery-Program

Edited August 29, 2014 by goduranus

[tater]

Try licking it.

This is the first thing most geologists would do. Do it for science!

[Felsmak]

This is the first thing most geologists would do. Do it for science!

Somehow, someone will have to be the first to get their tongue stuck to the surface of an icy moon.

[Mister Kerman]

Eat ketchup and french fries off of it.

[Fiddlestyx]

Pretty sure you are supposed to call NASA and tell them how you did it. While you are on the phone, could you do me a favor and ask them to bring the Space Shuttle back?

[HafCoJoe]

I suggest giving it wings and flying it, but that's just me :I.

[Franklin]

[M4ck]

http://pulpaudio.com/ksp/sig_astroglide.jpg

Beautiful who did this?

[Franklin]

I know, I want the wallpaper-sized version of that. That's from 5thHorseman's sig.

[namsum]

Now you can build your first real "Rock-et" ;-)

PS: Ships are perfectly lined up through center of mass of the astroid :-)

[GreeningGalaxy]

So far all I've done is put a class-E in a high-eccentricity polar orbit (about as useless an orbit as you can get) and a class-A in a retrograde low-equatorial orbit (also pretty useless). I was going to hook them together with KAS or something and make a Prospit-and-moon kind of setup (maybe even complete with buildings) but then that save broke.