4 terraformable WW moons in one system

Hey guys, jut wanted to share this discovery, i've made last week on my way to Beagle Point. Those are 4 terraformable WW moons of class Y star, dont know how rare this is, but it sure is a rarity for me.

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It is not a gas giant, and not an ELWs, but still i think its a nice discovery. Will post system location when i sell my data.

Cmdr Mlat Hromovlad
 
It looks impressive, even if none of them are ELWs. Almost like a naturally-occurring Achenar or Alioth system.

Were the other two moons terraformable as well, or were they too small?
 
It looks impressive, even if none of them are ELWs. Almost like a naturally-occurring Achenar or Alioth system.

Were the other two moons terraformable as well, or were they too small?

Nope, only WWs were terraformable here.
 
I'm gonna be a jerk here, and I'm sorry, but is it really a moon if it orbits a star?

Perhaps technically, no; things that orbit stars are "planets". However, we still don't really have a good definition of what constitutes a "star". Brown dwarfs are technically "sub-stellar objects" and not stars; however, brown dwarfs are considered "stars" from the point of view of the ED stellar forge, which lists them on the galaxy map info screen as "stars" and uses the generic star icon to depict them on the main screen. And currently, the astronomical community uses the word "planet" to describe an object discovered orbiting a brown dwarf.

However, the stellar forge does sometimes place "stars", even main-sequence stars, in "planetary orbits". Such objects are considered "planets" by the game, even though they are described and labelled as stars. For example, only stars in planetary orbits can be given rings. And any "planets" orbiting a star in a planetary orbit are labelled as if they were moons, not as if they were planets, as you can see by the picture roboteconomist posted above; the highlighted world is labelled "Hegeia VE-P d6-6 4 d", or "the fourth moon of the fourth planet of the Hegeia VE-P d6-6 system".

Since we haven't yet discovered any in-real-life things orbiting a brown dwarf that in turn orbits a star, the IAU has not had to make a decision on whether to call such objects "moons" or "planets". I would propose that using either word is acceptable in this circumstance.
 
Perhaps technically, no...

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As a satellite that orbits a star that in turn orbits the main star or stars in a system, "moon" is probably technically fine as there is too much ambiguity either way regarding a clear definition. However, from what I can gather, it does seem to lean toward these bodies in question as technically being types of moons.

To me the system map actually seems to err on the side of accuracy here, if you will, at least in regard to relevant orbital paths and influences and overall system structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_satellite

TL;DR: Calling these bodies moons is fine, unless for whatever reason you feel like being unnecessarily excessively pedantic, and even then it might still be fine. ;)
 
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