Is it possible to exhaust all ore on a planet or moon?
A while back I managed to land on a class D asteroid, and divert its orbit to Kerbin's. There I used it to supply my orbital refueling station. After a while though, I received a message stating that I had exhausted all resources on the asteroid.
I now have sent missions to Eve, and have started to mine Gilly (which is basically a large, captured asteroid). Of course, I remembered what happened with the asteroid I had a Kerbin, so I started to wonder...
Is it possible to mine all available resources on Gilly?
Or on any other moon or planet, for that matter?
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Do asteroids run out of ore KSP?
Asteroids contain a finite amount of ore. If mining an asteroid, the mass of the asteroid will be reduced by the amount of ore extracted. There is no need to use any scanners to find out the ore concentration for asteroids, it's enough to be close to it or on it.Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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