I am looking to understand how this list is used. Being an explorer I have come across many ELW's but I have not contributed to this list so far. What purpose does this list serve and how is it used? Would all the data not already be present, eg on EDSM?
List of Earth-like worlds, v3
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Hi there! It doesn't serve much of a purpose now, I just keep it open in case somebody still wants their own entries added now. EDSM and then EDDN superseded this, especially once the game logged everything related to the bodies. Keep in mind though that this list is from before EDSM, before the game would log stuff into the journals. So it's really just a piece of history that's still open, because hey, why not.
And because we love it so much I have a present for you....
| System name | Planet ID | Dist. from Sol (ly) | First discovered by | Contributed by | System star(s) type | Ringed EL? | Moon EL? | If ELM, parent type? | No. of moons | Screenshot URL | Notes |
| Prooe Drye OP-C c14-4 | 6 | 2,378.77 | Sinister Hedgehog | K8 VA | FALSE | FALSE | N/A | 0 |
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| Aucoths SL-B d14-15 | A 5 | 5,562.44 | Sinister Hedgehog | F0 VI, M0 VA | FALSE | FALSE | N/A | 0 |
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| Smojoo MN-T d3-22 | A 6 | 4,824.61 | Sinister Hedgehog | A4 VI, K7 VA | FALSE | FALSE | NA | NA |
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| Pru Eurk WK-E d12-3 | B 1 | 3,353.47 | Sinister Hedgehog | G1 VAB, K6 VA | FALSE | FALSE | NA | 0 |
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| Lysood MR-N d6-110 | 8 | 9,992.70 | Sinister Hedgehog | F1 VB | FALSE | FALSE | NA | 0 |
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My main goal with the list was to figure out how Earth-likes might "work", how we can find better ones, any anomalies, and so on. By now, I think this has been achieved as well as it could be - and doing any more research is much better done on the crowdsourced data anyway, as that's both far larger and less biased.
Two fun pieces of history from back then. First off, before this, the predominant thinking was that people should stick to G stars if they wanted to find Earth-likes, because our own Sun is a G star as well. As far as I know, I was the first to make a list of what star classes systems with ELWs had, and that sent that theory away.
Second, your comment about having a bunch of locations to visit for Earth-like planetary landings reminded me that back at Horizons's launch, I said I expected that we'd have landings at least on barren atmospheric worlds in two years. That was the end of 2015. Turns out what we got instead were landings on thin atmospheric planets in 5.5 years. I'm not making any more predictions now
Oh, and on another note: I've added the entries, the list is updated again.
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Two words...
Bragging rights.