ELW as moons of gas giants

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
Hello Cmdrs.

I have been doing quite a bit of exploring/scanning of late (as opposed to buckyballing) and have scanned lots of gas giants with lots of moons (I generally don't bother scanning the moons).

This got me thinking/remembering...I seem to recall that some cmdrs have found gas giants with ELW as moons. Obviously this is not very common but how many of you have actually seen one?

Frawd
 
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Eisen

Eisen
I've found two, and one of them was even ringed. Have a picture of it buried somewhere on my desktop at home. Such ELW-moons are very very very very rare:D
 

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
Eisen said:
I've found two, and one of them was even ringed. Have a picture of it buried somewhere on my desktop at home. Such ELW-moons are very very very very rare:D
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Yup...I have scanned many gas giants and never seen one. I worry that I am so blase about scanning gas giants that might accedently miss one.

Frawd
 

newman1702

newman1702
I've recently found a ringed ELW orbiting one of the system's brown dwarves - not a standard gas giant, but not far off either :) There were 4 moons around that particular brown dwarf, three were your standard icy variety and the 4th was the ringed ELW.
 
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MattG

MattG
I found this one on my last mini-expedition, just before engineers
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One of the lowest gravity and highest ice content ELWs I've come across.



Edit: In fact, check out Marx's List of ELWs. Anything with "E" in the moons section is a moon of something else, the notes normally tell you of what. There aren't too many for gas giants...
 
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[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
MattG said:
I found this one on my last mini-expedition, just before engineers
http://i.imgbox.com/PvjMe0rS.png

One of the lowest gravity and highest ice content ELWs I've come across.
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I also found one ringed ELW around a ringed gas giant - a pity that I only have the screenshot and not the "address".
When cashing in, I tried to screenshot all high value systems, I also remember it was about 2000 ly below Sag A*, so I might be able to find it again by checking sector names...
 

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
newman1702 said:
I've recently found a ringed ELW orbiting one of the system's brown dwarves - not a standard gas giant, but not far off either :) There were 4 moons around that particular brown dwarf, three were your standard icy variety and the 4th was the ringed ELW.
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I found a WW going around a brown dwarf...that's as close as I've come

Frawd

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MattG said:
I found this one on my last mini-expedition, just before engineers
http://i.imgbox.com/PvjMe0rS.png
One of the lowest gravity and highest ice content ELWs I've come across.
Edit: In fact, check out Marx's List of ELWs. Anything with "E" in the moons section is a moon of something else, the notes normally tell you of what. There aren't too many for gas giants...
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Thanks for sharing Cmdr. An excellent find!

And of course the list of ELW would be a good place to look for them...thanks for reminding me

Frawd

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optimal_909 said:
I also found one ringed ELW around a ringed gas giant - a pity that I only have the screenshot and not the "address".
When cashing in, I tried to screenshot all high value systems, I also remember it was about 2000 ly below Sag A*, so I might be able to find it again by checking sector names...
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Yup i too am really bad at recording my good finds...I'm trying to get better but usually forget to document until I'm many LY past the system of interest

Frawd
 

marx

marx
This reminded me that I actually planned to make a count of the different kinds of bodies that ELW-s orbit as moons, but I forgot. I added that now, and it turns out that out of the 56 Earth-like worlds that orbit something as a moon, 5 orbit gas giants. And this is out of 3696 ELW-s in total.
So yeah, it's really rare. If you come across one, congratulations!

It's interesting actually, because the majority of ELW-moons are around planets. Personally, I would have expected them to be more frequent around gas giants, or at the very least that the ratio would be more favourable.
 
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AJW

AJW
I found this a couple of months back: it is shown as a binary with the gas giant, rather than a moon, but considering their relative mass (the giant is 1,141 times as heavy as the earthlike) that seems questionable.
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[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
Cmdr Frawd Digger said:
Yup i too am really bad at recording my good finds...I'm trying to get better but usually forget to document until I'm many LY past the system of interest

Frawd
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It appears that I didn't make a screenshot of that particular system when selling the data, I can only estimate whereabout in a small area that contains possibly millions of stars. Unless FD gives us the ability to filter the visited systems, my ringed ELW around a gas giant remains lost...
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As for being a moon of another planet I found this one:
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On the sidenote, what about an airless AW - gas giant binary? :)
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