Explorers: Anybody found an earthlike moon orbiting a gas giant yet?
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Ian Phillips
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I have found a water world with carbon based life orbiting an ammonia world with Ammonia based life.
As far as I remember I wasn't the first to find it.
As far as I remember I wasn't the first to find it.
I found one in a binary orbit with a gas giant (it was ringed and quite large itself), though the centre of mass would be nearer the gas giant of the two.
I haven't found one in true orbit (centre of mass inside the gas giant), but they do exist. I found the odd terraformable in this pattern.
I haven't found one in true orbit (centre of mass inside the gas giant), but they do exist. I found the odd terraformable in this pattern.
Hello fellow commanders!
Thank you for the feedback so far - could you post the system's names and, if available, screenshots?
Even if already explored, if such a system lays on my way back to civilization I'd like to visit them.
Thanks in advance for your efforts!
Greetings
Commander Hannibal Fry
Thank you for the feedback so far - could you post the system's names and, if available, screenshots?
Even if already explored, if such a system lays on my way back to civilization I'd like to visit them.
Thanks in advance for your efforts!
Greetings
Commander Hannibal Fry
Ian Phillips
Volunteer Moderator
Unfortunately I am still out on a trip and cannot access the data I have accumulated. I didn't keep any notes on the system either, other than I have been mapping the extent of the Regor 'void' in the region of HD 68895.
COL 285 SECTOR RU-O D6-34: 1 (357 LY)
You'll find some more here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=119065 - not all have screenshots though.
You'll find some more here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=119065 - not all have screenshots though.
Cool shot, thx! Too bad the gas giant isn't in the shot
One of my earlier finds. It isn't a 'true' moon, as it is heavy enough so to become a binary, but if it were a bit lighter it would be a moon.
I have started to check out the shots (the first 80 of them) on the thread you mentioned: None orbiting a gas giant so far... As it seems, it must be a quite rare occurrence.
It is. The vast majority will be in Sol-like or the 'no-gas-giant' type systems. I would say the occurrence might be 1% of Earthlikes, which are already less than 1/300 systems for someone looking.
Finally I found one on the list!
BOEPP MD-A D1-1665: 1 (15,720 LY) (OTIS B. DRIFTWOOD)
Tonight I'll have to check out if it's on my way home - otherwise I'll have to plan my next trip already
Edit: Checked the rest of the shots on post 1: No other shot qualifies - so: Cheers (and rep) to Otis B. Driftwood!
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You mean like this one?
Some Cameron guy found it.
/smartass
/smartass
I've just found a Waterworld with carbon based life orbiting a gas giant.
https://plus.google.com/photos/1134...6141686252071864386&oid=113402707436615450069
I found a WW with rings orbiting a gas giant as an only moon. I almost skipped it, as it looked like a gas giant on the system map, and it did have a huge mass, so I thought it was a worthless little gas. Good thing I checked.
Nice find, but it's not orbiting the giant as a moon. The two planets are coorbiting, they form a binary planetary system, so the elw is not a moon of the gas giant.
Moons are rapresented by lines that go down the main planet.
