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Minmus

Description

Minmus is rather small, rather distant, and rather green. As long as artisan food has existed, so has the belief that it is composed of ice cream or mint. But recently, some have wised up and begun assuming it may actually be a rust ball. Mentioning this, however, tends to lead to levels of conflict only seen in debates between two political alignments.

Trivia

Like a spotted dog, Minmus contains a number of biomes (in the green) and a number of brown variants of these. It still has many flats, though they are not called flats. Its particular composition of solid N2 and O2, for an inner system body highly suggests that it's indeed somehow a captured ice world. It retains its mass, gravity and inclination from stock.

When using the n-body physics of the mod Principia, the orbit of Minmus becomes highly unstable. This problem is resolved for Principia users by moving Minmus' orbit inside that of Mun.

RR

Rational Resources Classification:

Ocean Surface Atmosphere Exosphere
None Custom None None

Specs

From the PDF included in the download:

Bulk Params Orbital and Rotational Params
Classification Moon (Kerbin) Semi-major Axis 146,970 km
Radius 160 km sea level, 160.3 km mean Periapsis 142,561 km
Mass 1.88079×1020 kg Apoapsis 151,379 km
Gravitational Parameter 1.22525×1010 m3/s2 Orbit eccentricity 0.03
Mean density 10,910 kg/m3 Orbit inclination
Surface gravity 0.05 g ASL Longitude of ascending node 75°
Escape velocity 396 m/s Argument of periapsis 315°
Bond Albedo 0.2 Sidereal orbit period 51.720 days
Solar irradiance 1,360 W/m2 Synodic period 60.259 days
Black-body temperature 263 K Mean orbital velocity 413 m/s
Sidereal rotation period 9 hours
Solar day 9.0185 hours
Synchronous orbit altitude 534 km
Sphere of influence 7,028 km
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