The rediscovery of HIP 80950 - earth as 10th moon

Due to the rediscovery of the GGG I went through my very old screenshots of elite dangerous and found this:

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Yes that is an earth as 10th moon in a HIP system.

I searched for the system in the galaxy map and was astouned that the system HIP 80950 was only about 1000ly from my current position (in the borderlands of the Swoilz and Col 173 sector). The other thing that was strange was the red dot on the screen. "How is this possible" went though my head. I then took a closer look when I made screenshot and realised that it happened before the visited star filter or even logs existed.

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A look at the system on edsm made it even more obvious that I actually rediscovered a forgotten system.

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After 15 jumps I entered the system and figured that another commander came through and scanned the bodies that I did not back then. A third cmdr probed the earth still sitting there as 10th moon.

I then proceeded to fss and probe every planet in that system and therefore added it to edsm.

While doing so I discovered something else:

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Yes thats 50 million atm

After checking ed astro I realised that this planet is about 38 billion and more away from the record holder but still a very impressive surface pressure.

So... thank you GGG expedition, igau and everybody else who tried to rediscover things. You are the reason I did all this :)
 
...I then took a closer look when I made screenshot and realised that it happened before the visited star filter or even logs existed...
For anyone wondering how to spot this fact by eye, the clue is in the bracket surrounding the planet: it's square. The system map targetting bracket switched from this square shape to the current circular one in update 1.4 I believe. So that screenshot must be from 1.3 or earlier.
 
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