Interesting find. Tiny Gas Dwarf orbiting a ice planet.

shreddog

shreddog
So this icy planet sure had an interesting moon.
Never seen a gas giant moon before, at least not with a terrestrial primary. Thought I'd share.

Here are the pics
That's quite a low mass for a gas giant.
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Here's a shot of it
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And there's the parent planet in the distance to the left
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Caramel Clown

Caramel Clown
I don't know how deep FD's starforge models this kind of stuff but I suggest a 'rogue planet' theory :) This gas planet was thrown out of some other system and got caught in stable orbit around this planet.
Now, I've never seen objects in any given system to have different listed age, but it doesn't mean that it's not possible.
 

Duckfat

Duckfat
400 billion star systems, trillions of different combinations... anything is possible alright. I'm waiting to see a star orbiting a black hole, orbiting a gassy, orbiting a rocky planet, orbiting a giant toaster. That'd be cool.
 

thundernuns

thundernuns
I've never seen a gas giant that small before. Maybe the Universal Cartographic Records website can prove if it is the lightest

Edit: The lightest Class 1 recorded is 0.8 Earth masses, which is close
 
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Corbin Moran

Corbin Moran
Great find Shreddog!

I don´t know enough about solar system formation, but having such a small gas planet must require some weird stuff taking place.

Another example of this phenomenon was discovered by Iridium Nova on Apr 29th 3302, in the Flyua Dryoae DG-M d8-3 system. With a radius of only 8787 km it was the smallest (but not the lightest) gas giant discovered at the time (and possibly so far).

Source: http://imgur.com/a/YyJYc and the Sagittarius-Carina Mission.
 
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