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TAU CETI SYSTEM









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Proper Name
of Planet
Formal
Designation
Planetary Statistics
Planet's
Major Moons
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Planets of Tau Ceti

Distance from Earth: 70 trillion miles (11.8 light-years)
Star Type: G8V, yellow main-sequence star
Diameter of sun: 670,000 miles (0.77 Rsun)
Age of System: 5,800 million earth years

Ladon

Tau Ceti I
 Scorched Lava World

Distance from sun: 18 million miles
Diameter: 4,122 miles (0.52 Earth's diameter)
Orbital Period: 30.2 earth days (28 Deianara days)
Rotation Period: 32.3 earth days
Gravity: 0.41 g
Axil Tilt: 0°
Moons: none

Abderus

Tau Ceti II
 Hot, Terraformed Terrestrial World - largely desert

Distance from sun: 67 million miles
Diameter: 4,445 miles (0.56 Earth's diameter)
Orbital Period: 174.02 earth days (196.54 Abderitan days)
Solar Day: 16:22 earth hours (420 Abderitan days per "Tau Ceti Year")
Gravity: 0.41 g
Axil Tilt: 0.6°
Moons: 2; Orthus, Geryon
Notes: 25% surface water
.......Terraformed in the 40th to 45th Centuries A.D.
Capital City: Throme
Orthus
Geryon

Deianara

Tau Ceti III
 Terraformed Temperate Terrestrial World

Distance from sun: 72 million miles
Diameter: 6,074 miles (0.77 Earth's diameter)
Orbital Period: 286.249 earth days (265.25 Deianaran days)
Solar Day: 25:54 earth hours
Gravity: 0.79 g
Axil Tilt: 25°
Moons: 1
Notes: 50% surface water
.......Colonised in 3461 A.D.
.......Terraformed in the 35th and 36th Centuries.
Nessus

Ceryneia

Tau Ceti IV
 Ringed Desert World

Distance from sun: 214 million miles
Diameter: 8,640 miles (1.09 Earth's diameter)
Orbital Period: 3.49 earth years (4.45 Deianara years)
Solar Day: 69:46 earth hours
Gravity: 1.03 g
Axil Tilt: 55°
Moons: 2
Potamos
Artemius

Lerna

Tau Ceti V
 Hazy Green Desert World

Distance from sun: 251 million miles
Diameter: 7,530 miles (0.95 Earth's diameter)
Orbital Period: 4.35 earth years (5.55 Deianara years)
Solar Day: 3.91 earth days
Gravity: 0.98 g
Axil Tilt: 17°
Moons: 1
Amymone

Pholus

Tau Ceti VI
 Large Gas Giant

Distance from sun: 549 million miles
Diameter: 85,603 miles (10.8 Earth's diameter)
Orbital Period: 14.2 earth years (18.1 Deianara years)
Rotation Period: 19:42 earth hours
Gravity: 2.23 g
Axil Tilt: 9°
Moons: 3 major, 50+ minor
Eurytion
Clymenus
Hylonome

Iolaus

Tau Ceti VII
 Ringed Gas Giant

Distance from sun: 1,032 million miles
Diameter: 76,091 miles (9.6 Earth's diameter)
Orbital Period: 36.98 earth years (47.2 Deianara years)
Rotation Period: 11:24 earth hours
Gravity: 1.54 g
Axil Tilt: 32°
Moons: 4 major, 30+ minor
Eurystheus
Amphitryon
Alcmene
Iphiclus









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