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Standard point on having troops. Who is paying these guys to stand around doing nothing but eating your rations and breathing your air in the off chance that someone will raid your asteroid?

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 10:49 am: Edit

Respectfully, Mike, if the ComPlat was docked to the convenient asteroid, it might prove difficult for their customers to dock to it.

On the other hand, we've seen that it's pretty common for asteroids to have moons; some of which orbit at altitudes lower than a mile. This range would prove to be within the easiest transporter range, same hex, but might block the defensive firepower (snicker) of the ComPlat, were it to come under attack...

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 08:13 am: Edit

Asteroids have moons?

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 08:50 am: Edit

As the OP of this thread, I have no idea what anyone is talking about anymore.

Mike,

Yes. Asteroids can have moons. There is at least one known example. I forgot which one and I'm not looking it up. But, yes, asteroids can have their own little moons.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 09:47 am: Edit

The moons of asteroids don't tend to be very big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor-planet_moon

By Nick Blank (Nickgb) on Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 12:18 pm: Edit

The asteroid that was impacted by Nasa's Dart mission, Dimorphos, is a moon of a larger asteroid, Didymos.

Dimorphos was chosen for this mission specifically because it was a moon of another asteroid, watching the orbit before and after impact gave better data on how much the Dart impact affected the asteroid compared to impacting a solo asteroid.