A new planet type for me...

Has anyone come across one of these before?

ammonia-oxygen world.jpg

A Terrestrial Ammonia-Oxygen world with Carbon-Ammonia based life. First time I've found a world like this in over 2000 systems.
 
I may have a screen shot of one I found lying around somewhere.... You might want to check for octagonal craft while you're there ;)
 
Yes, the scan of them is worth a reasonable amount of money and they're often overlooked as they often look similar to a metal-rich world with a specific type of atmosphere. From what I've seen they're probably about as common as earth-like planets!
 
I've found dozens of Ammonia worlds. But this is the first one showing Carbon-Ammonia Life with an Ammonia AND Oxygen atmosphere
 
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Annoyingly, there also happen to be "high metal content" planets that also look very, very similar. Those ones tend to be 500k Ly from the main star...

Ask me how I know...

*grumble*

Z...
 
Annoyingly, there also happen to be "high metal content" planets that also look very, very similar. Those ones tend to be 500k Ly from the main star...

Ask me how I know...

*grumble*

Z...

Listen to the planets in sysmap. Metal content planets are noisy, sound like an electric guitar or metal being cut, plus wind if there's atmosphere.

Ammonia Worlds -Terrestrials and Gas Giants- both go totally and eerily silent when you try to listen to them.

Is that inequivocal sound signature that can save you from such a long SC trip next time! ;-)
 
Listen to the planets in sysmap. Metal content planets are noisy, sound like an electric guitar or metal being cut, plus wind if there's atmosphere.

Ammonia Worlds -Terrestrials and Gas Giants- both go totally and eerily silent when you try to listen to them.

Is that inequivocal sound signature that can save you from such a long SC trip next time! ;-)


Yep! The planet "music" replaced my Radio Sidewinder, and it's great to be able to pick out those ELWs, water worlds, ammonia worlds, class II gas giants, and water/ammonia-life gas giants in seconds (two seconds, to be precise). ++
 
Maybe its just me, but I think Ammonias may be a bit more common than ELWs, and its probably just that they aren't as obvious as get easily missed - particularly the ones in with the outer planets. I'm probably 2-3 times as many Ammonias as ELWs on my current trip.
 
Maybe its just me, but I think Ammonias may be a bit more common than ELWs, and its probably just that they aren't as obvious as get easily missed - particularly the ones in with the outer planets. I'm probably 2-3 times as many Ammonias as ELWs on my current trip.

This is also my experience and observation. For every ELP, I found 2.5 AW
 
As I already said, I've found dozens of Ammonia Worlds. Only 8 Earth-like ones.

My question was, Has anyone seen a World with Carbon-Ammonia based life and an Ammonia-Oxygen atmosphere?

Because I haven't :)
 
I find maybe a dozen Ammonia worlds a day, some of those with ammonia & oxygen atmospheres. I can't recall if any specified carbon-ammonia based life but I'm pretty sure they are generally all the same?

As opposed to my maybe​ one ELW a day if I'm lucky.
 
All of the AW's I've found have had Ammonia and Oxygen atmosphere TYPES but never actually had both ammonia and oxygen in the composition. small/mediums amounts of oxygen yes but never ammonia.
 
Ammonia worlds can also look very different, eg:

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This is also classed as an "ammonia & oxygen" atmosphere although any oxygen it has is less than 0.1%...
 
As I already said, I've found dozens of Ammonia Worlds. Only 8 Earth-like ones.

My question was, Has anyone seen a World with Carbon-Ammonia based life and an Ammonia-Oxygen atmosphere?

Because I haven't :)

Interesting that you said that. On my way back to crowded (and dangerous) space, and stumbled across this one. The stats are pretty close to your Ammonia world. Nice find for both of us!

Ammonia Oxygen World 2.jpg
 
As I already said, I've found dozens of Ammonia Worlds. Only 8 Earth-like ones.

My question was, Has anyone seen a World with Carbon-Ammonia based life and an Ammonia-Oxygen atmosphere?

Because I haven't :)

Yes, I remember finding at least one. Thought it was weird, but at the same time, I haven't paid too much attention to the atmosphere of the AW. So, I am not sure if I have found several or just that one that I happened to give it a hard look.

My guess is that it is indeed a rarity.

Looking through the data of those I collected lately, many had the Ammonia Oxygen atmosphere but not sure about the Carbon Ammonia part.

The most strange one I found of those, though, was an Ammonia World with Ammonia Based Life.....WITH NO ATMOSPHERE AT ALL!!



The rotational/orbital period on that world though... Yikes.

Good catch!!! Geez, horrible movement... similar to Mercury!

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