The Great Crater of Kerbin: What Caused It? 

For people watching this video later on that are confused by the comments: I removed a bit at the end where I talked about possibly stopping with this channel (due to some mistakes and some other stuff). After some thought, I decided to just take a break from now, and see from there. I hope this helps.

Making mistakes is allowed, and you going out of your way to correct them is what counts. The fact that you’re an ‘amateur’ and not an expert diving into these scientific questions is honestly a part of what makes it so fun to watch. If you keep uploading, i’ll keep watching!

Don’t let a few mistakes discourage you from making content; this channel is an absolute goldmine and it’s set to grow tenfold what it is now!

Your channel is very good, and don't feel ashamed of making a mistake! You are honestly precisely the type of content I need about ksp.

I think you should still continue with the channel. Your content is very enjoyable, and your presentation is unique and engaging. Even if there are minor mistakes, you can always address them in the comments. I also don’t think people will be basing their thesis on a KSP video any time soon so it’s alright to have some discrepancies. The only way to get better at researching and presenting facts is to keep doing it, and I already think you are doing a fantastic job. Hope you choose to keep going and keep the good work up ✌️

It's sad to hear that you don't have the inspiration to make films anymore. Don't worry about mistakes, everyone makes them. Your videos are great. The fact that you took ksp seriously under the eye of science is very interesting and that makes your videos fun and good to watch. Maybe take a break, but it would be sad if you left channel dead

What matters above all is if doing this content makes you happy. Admitting mistakes and making up for them puts you leagues above many other content creators whose ego and pride prohibit them from doing such things. Your content is enjoyable and entertaining, but no matter what, you must prioritize your own well being first. If you stay with us, we look forward to your future videos! If not, we wish nothing but the best for you. Thanks for another great video :)

Dont stop the channel just because you made one mistake! Everyone makes mistakes! I love your content and it is about very niche topics that fill in and enhance the lore and the gameplay experience! Please continue!

Your content is some of the most unique KSP content I have ever seen. A mistake is a mistake, everyone makes them. Don't give up on this channel Myself and others really love your content.❤

You make these difficult equations seem so easy going through them step by step!

You are easily making some of the best KSP content on RU-vid right now, and I find each video to be more interesting and informative than the last. Don't be afraid of making mistakes; that is how most of us learned to play KSP, after all!

Whatever you do, don't give up. You'll never forgive yourself if you do. Making mistakes is what makes us better, I personally love your videos and hope you stick around!

keep continuing the cannel! i love videos like this, even with the mistakes, they’re very entertaining and allow for an introduction into things so we can research them ourselves!

Thank you for doing a video on the crater, I've been wondering about it for a while. Also, don't discourage yourself from making a mistake, your videos are awesome

You're beginning! No one starts out perfect. The most important thing is understanding the responsibility you carry, and you clearly already have that down. With time and experience, mistakes will become less common. It hurts to see a growing creator with so many great videos yet to be made be so disheartened by a small mistake.

Just had your video into my recommandations. Your videos are quite interesting and well made, we can feel how much work and love you put in them so don’t worry about making mistakes about maths and science, that kind of things happens all the time to anyone and since you’re correcting yourself everything’s alright mate, keep going !

My friend, making mistakes is natural, every body does it at some point. Plus, the "should jool have rings?" Video made me interested in how the Roche limit equation worked. Now I have a note book full of equations explaining our universe. Along with entire pages of mistakes. Keep going my friend, inspire more.

Even if you make mistakes, just make sure to correct yourself, there's no harm in doing so. I would hate to see such an interesting channel die over something so small. Keep it up!

Please make more videos

I just found this channel, and I think you should definitely continue. Don't let a few mistakes take you away from your passion :)

Please continue making videos. I Absolutely Love your style and your humour and the way you present stuff. making a few mistakes is Completely okay. Please Don’t Stop

Are you giving up due to your mistakes? Nah, you're better than this, folk.

no idea where the 81 km impactor for chicxulub as it was probably a carbonaceous asteroid (the comet hypothesis has been beaten to death) I'm guessing the search engine pulled it from a website citing something saying 11 to 18 km rather than an actually reliable source which I why I search engines aren't a valid source. It was probably 10-15 km and probably originated from the outer part of the asteroid belt.

yes, you should continue this series

making one mistake, heck making a hundred mistakes is no reason to stop making content, you admitted where you went wrong and owned up to it. you did the right thing. plus i really liked that video and i am excited to see it remastered eventually if you end up going that route.

You should definitely continue making videos, mainly because I love how you apply real math to a video game so it's amazing that you can do this with making so few mistakes anyway, also because everyone makes mistakes (even Veritasium)

This Dutch guy named Viktor has a dope channel/ liked subscribed and will look forward to future vids

Videos like this make me reach out to devs to find out the actual name of the crater 😂😂. Keep it up and I can’t wait for the next.

I don't have anything other than "learn from mistakes and keep going," because it's as simple as that.

I enjoy this content, I hope you keep making it :)

Please keep making these videos They’re basically the only place we can find the answer to these obscure questions

Keep going homie. You'll only improve like a fine wine

Don’t stop, nice video dude

great video! go on with the channel!

Feeling the weight of the responsibility is exactly why you should continue. It shows that you are putting your heart into this

I just watched this video and it was great don’t stop uploading mistakes are fine and if you don’t have inspiration take a break but don’t quit

Damnit, I just found your channel! Don't quit! Seriously though, science often advances through mistakes, or accidents, but still... The important thing is to admit when you've made an error, and to learn from them. Perfection isn't possible, so that's an unreasonable standard to demand, right?

just discovered your channel. The way you present all the neccesary math is amazing. It would be a shame if you ended because of a few mistakes. Take my sub and heads up!

Good job my man!

of course you should continue !

Keep with it this is good content. These mistakes are tiny, and don’t impact the quality of your presentation. Much bigger channels make larger mistakes that actually matter and don’t even apologize. Keep at it and don’t give up!

This man answers questions I never knew I had ❤️:D

very cool video!

This is cool! I got it recommended

1:30 if i use the information on the KSP wiki on mass and size of a small E class asteroid i get a density of roughly 60000 kg/m^3. gilly is at 13500 kg/m^3 and bop and pol a little over 30000 kg/m^3. also please dont stop just because of a few mistakes :(

A really cool bit of estimating, it was fascinating to watch! I like that you increased the density of the asteroid to match the planetoids in the Kerbal universe. It's interesting that it's so similar to the Chicxulub crater. (Kerbin dinosaur mod when? XD ) I like looking for things which might be craters on Kerbin, though it gets into speculation a little. :) If you allow for plate tectonics distorting the shape of an ancient crater, there's an even bigger crater on the continent straight east from the KSC. (Ignore the peninsulas.) It's where the coast makes a sharp northward turn just east of 0 degrees longitude. A river borders part of its southern rim. There's a complete ring of highlands biome with a mountain biome in its north-eastern part, but the southern rim stretched southward. The central peak is quite large. It's clearer on a topographical map than a biome map. It looks pretty awesome when you realise it's there, looking bigger than the Great Crater though its not really much larger. I guess the distorted shape would make it harder to estimate the size of the impactor, or at least give a greater range of possible sizes. Looking at maps for this, I started to wonder if there's an even older, more eroded and distorted crater nearly double the diameter of the Great Crater north of the KSC. Its central peak looks to be about 50 degrees north. This thing is just absurdly huge, if it's even a crater at all.

Love these videos! We´d love it if you kept crunching numbers for us nerds, but if you feel like you need to take another approach, it´d be childlish of us to complain. Wherevere you go from here, you´ll have your community´s approval!

Great video

In going to engineer nasa stuff when i get older because of you

Good vid😊

this is the one thing i wanted to know

you cant do science without mistakes

Don't worry about making a few mistakes! taking the time to address them is already more than most people do.

The mountains along the rim of it slightly imply possible volcanic origin instead along with the small island in the center which is common in very large volcanic calderas from subsequent eruptions, just look at Crater lake as a very good example, I think it is very likely this is the remnants of a massive shield volcano eruption.

Awesome!

Concerning mistakes, I think admitting mistakes is more than enough. I definitely don't see your mistake in the last video as big as you see it. I think having fun making videos and getting people interested in physics & astronomy is more important.

Subscribed.

Ksp lore? IM IN!

Mistakes are normal, you don't need to stop just because you made one.

Please continue this channel, so long as it's not damaging your mental health or taking up too much time! I love all your videos and so do many others, always a fantastic watch!

i love how looks that crater

I have an idea about Kerbin crater. While Kerbin was forming, it may have experienced a collision and scattered fragments into space. These parts may have formed Mun, Minmus and a third moon.Most likely, the 3rd Moon was caught in Mun's gravity and fell into Kerbin, creating this crater.

id hate for you to stop because of some mistakes, i love watching your videos.

Don’t take your videos down, keep them up. You can correct your mistakes in the comments or in the description.

It's strange how many times I have seen that crater and never went there or thought of why it is there

Hey, what program/website do you write those equations in? It would be very helpful to me as well.

everybody makes mistakes, its how we learn. your videos are unique compared to other ksp content.

There may be a way to determine the angle: just looking at the crater. If the angle is zero, the crater should be round. It will get more and more elongated until in some cases (like Elsyum Crater on Mars) it will look really streched. The Great Crater on Kerbin is pretty round, so you can assume that the angle is pretty much zero.

Hey man, science is about making mistakes, and nobody can communicate it perfectly. Shit happens, and it's important to record said shit with instructions on how to replicate it. Keep up the good work, and keep up your perfect imperfections, they're what make science fun :)

Could you do the same with the explodium sea of eve?

Great work but i think you should tell us where is that Kerbin located

Kerbin is such a beautiful planet.

What software do you use to do the drawings of the orbits and just writing?

One estimation, without formular yet, is the "Angle Of Attack" near zero (eg 10°), the crater shape formed rather "Elliptical" than circular one. In contrary, if "AOA" is near direct/right-angle (eg 80°), the crater rather formed "Circular" than elliptical ridge... around the center of strike..(is this sound idea.?)

Finnaly someone covers it Also the place where the kerbin spawn thing is looks the bottom of africa

V interesting

To be fair to Meteor Crater, I'm under the impression that it was among the first (or even the first) craters to be proven as having been formed by cosmic impact (as opposed to volcanic activity etc.), so the name wouldn't have been nearly as redundant at the time

It’d be cool to do the math on some other notable craters in KSP, like bop’s huge crater in KSP2

Now all we need is a planetary Geologist to estimate the Great Crater's age and a Paleokerbinologist to show its impact(no pun intended) on evolutionary biology(particularly in regard to Kerbals).

instantly subscrived after watching this video

@curious_ksp_ I need you to know that I burst out laughing at 2:53 . A giant rock hitting Kerbin at 12 kps... that's so much rock impact!

Bro making accurate calculations and theories for what is a simulated yniverse with values far from reality is an amazing feat in itself! Don’t give up bro! Mistakes are quite common and it is important to acknowledge them but shouldnt be a reason to give up completely. I would love to see you make more videos about ksp2 ‘s exoplanets and stars and check the math and science in them By watching your videos, iam learning much more about the real world and has enabled me fantasizing about different variations of exoplanets that are possible. So please keep the helpful content coming! Cheers!🙌🏽

I think that asteroid came at a big angle since on one side of the crater there are mountains and on other only a few islands

I’d like to know where this crater is, and maybe how old it is, etc. What kind of math will tell me that?

Oh I understand

Ey, my man, keep on making videos. If someone proves you wrong, just mention it in the next video. Actually, you should make MORE VIDEOS. The incorrect ones, and then the ones where you correct yourself, even if multiple videos may be neccessary.

I'm pretty sure that the Island in the middle of the crater is named "Nye Island," After Bill Nye.

If you disclaim any statements and calculations by saying that you are an amateur then there is no problem in my eyes. People won‘t expect pure facts that have been proven Tonne true without a shadow of a doubt. Keep it up

if kerbin were resized to a realistic size (10.6x scale) the crater would be 1802KM thats absolutely ginormous,and your by your estimate if the asteroid was also scaled up 10.6x then it would range from 169.6 km to 583 km,if its the upper estimate,its bigger than ceres also everybody makes mistakes,and it would be sad to not see anymore of these videos that look at ksp thru a scientific lens,dont be afraid to correct yourself if you make a mistake,it sometimes happens to the best of us

Do what could have formed the mohole

dont leave

Fun fact, the crater rim also exists on laythe

How about The "Kerchicxulub Crater"?

Keep the mistakes and annotate. Keep yourself accountable and watch how you grow

carry on a great way of learning math thesviedios are greaght

im gonna name the great crater as Colossus Impulsum

I knew it looked to much like a circle!

I don’t understand why people say don’t get discouraged

My original thought was that it was an atoll.

Ok but here's the real question, how did the smiley face formation in the ocean appear?