On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:07:35 +0100, in a place far, far away, Darren J
Longhorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

Very probably a dumb question, but could you dock with such a station
without being in the same highly elliptical orbit?

Yes, but it would be a very hard dock...

...and, presumably, vehicle doing the docking would have to be of
negligible mass compared to the station?

That would depend on how you wanted to apportion the damage.