No life — too hot for liquid waterMagnetic FieldExtreme Activity
Why is this a Lava World?A moon inside the synchronous orbit spiraled in and struck the planet. The impact remelted the surface into a global magma ocean.
Tidal decay drags close-in moons down over millions of years. A large enough impactor liquefies the crust, strips atmosphere, and resets the surface - whatever the orbit's temperature would otherwise allow.
Classification Criteria:
✓ Moon inside the synchronous orbit (tidal decay)✓ Impactor massive enough to remelt the crust- Orbit itself was fine: 0.12 AU, 1400K equilibrium
Habitability ScoreUninhabitable
0
Contributing Factors
water8
Limited water content - boiling away, little would be retained
geology50
Extreme volcanic activity may be hazardous (impact-resurfaced crust)
rotation10
Near tidally locked - one hemisphere perpetually scorched, other frozen, narrow habitable twilight zone only
Organic Chemistry84
Core organic elements (CHNO) present (tidal pools cycle wet and dry - a boost for prebiotic chemistry)
atmosphere14
Atmosphere present but composition not ideal for life (partially stripped by slow rotation) (atmosphere partially stripped by the moon impact)
temperature0
Inferno world - temperatures exceed all possibility of life
magnetic Field100
Magnetic field provides radiation protection
Physical Properties
Mass
1.00x Earth (5.97e+24 kg)
Radius
1.00x Earth (6,371 km)
Surface Gravity
1.00x Earth (9.8 m/s²)
Surface Temperature
1,400 K (1,127 °C / 2,060 °F)
Rotation Period
24.0 hours/day
Orbital Environment
Star Type
K-type (Orange)
Distance from Star
0.12 AU (18 million km)
Orbital Period
18 days
Atmosphere
Vaporized rock and impact ash - the original atmosphere blown off by the strike
Elemental Composition
O - Oxygen
30.4%
Si - Silicon
25.0%
N - Nitrogen
14.1%
Surface Characteristics
Surface remelted by a catastrophic moon impact - a global magma ocean cooling into scarred rock
Inside the Roche limit (2.80 planet radii): torn apart into a ring system.
Moon 2crashed0.10% - 4.9 radii
Inside the synchronous orbit: tidal decay dragged it down - it struck the planet ages ago.
Moon 3stable0.010% - 6.9 radii
Small and distant: a quiet, stable companion.
Tidal braking locked the planet to its moon: one face forever moonward.
Moon 4merged0.010% - 7.3 radii
Merged with an adjacent moon: too close for both to hold a stable orbit.
+4 chemistry: tidal pools cycle wet and dry - a boost for prebiotic chemistry-2 atmosphere: atmosphere partially stripped by the moon impact+10 geology: impact-resurfaced crust