A wet Moon, bit an unusual find.

Blake_Dragon

Blake_Dragon
Exploring near the core, I came across this system here:

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the 4th planet caused me a double-take as i can't recall having seen a combination like this before.

This here is on the approach to it:

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sure as heck, the Waterworld is orbiting the High Metal Content planet like a good little moon.

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You can see the HMC planet to the right of my Asp in this one. Tho you probably have to open it in a new tab and zoom in
(the pick is taken in my triple screen configuration of 5760x1080 so it may appear small otherwise)

They both are Candidates for Terraforming as well

I have seen plenty planets with moons on my trips, they are usually rocks. this is the first time I actively remember something other then a rock planet being a moon. Tidal locked, orbiting each other, yes, plenty, but as a moon? POFFF... there goes my mind again, blown to bits :eek:

well, after this quick posting intermission, back to Puttering around the core see what other neat things i can dig up :p
 
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Huita

Huita
One of my exploration trip had a policy of "don't return until i find at least a terraforming candidate orbiting a gas giant with rings".

I found one. Now to find an earthlike!
 

telperion

telperion
Wow! Yeah, that is pretty cool. I'm off exploring at the moment, heading towards the core. I'll be happy with this trip if I find anything close to that interesting.

Thanks for posting.
 

Reido

Reido
Congratulations on an interesting find.

I think that moons suitable for terraforming are more rare than Earth-likes, if so, that would be an extra special find.

I don't know how many thousands of moons I've scanned and haven't found one yet. I do have a vague recollection of seeing one once, but it might have been back in an inhabited system or very early on when I started exploring and wasn't paying too much attention to the system maps.


CMDR Andrew Reid
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
A rocky moon needs to be slightly higher mass (around 0.1 instead of 0.08 Earth masses) to be terraformable and it needs to be within the ordinary habitable band. Moons with such a high mass are rare birds in the habitable band of most stars.

According to the UC records book the lowest mass water world is around the 0.1 Earth mass mark but they only make up a tiny fraction of moons. I have yet to work out what causes one moon to be rocky and another to be a water world. I shall blame hidden variables for all of it. :)
 
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Elementical

Elementical
HIP 54360 has an earth-like moon at the 3rd star.
Dumbbell Sector EL-Y D60 has a terraformable water moon too :)

33 Bootis has a water world orbiting a class III giant but it's not a terraforming candidate.
 
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Blake_Dragon

Blake_Dragon
Lol. Watch matrix sometime in the cat issue Ziggy. I came across one that was in a gas giant, I drop a debug shot in here tomorrow morning, East coast usa. check back if you like to see
 

RailBalco

R
Frankly i dont see reason why is everyone so suprised with this discovery? Dunno if i saw it in elite or not, but i believe thid can happen in real. It could be originally single planet orbitting on its route, coming slowly to high metal planet an thanks to physics it stucked on orbit of that metal planet. Only needed condition is bigger mass of metal planet afaik
 
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