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Description
Name: Ateria (uh-tear-ee-uh)
Mass: 1.48 earths
Radius: 1.10 earths
Gravity: 1.22 earths
Semi-Major Axis: .71 to 3.99 au (66.03 to 371.07 million miles)
Moons: 1 (Aupa)
Year: 1,280 earth days (3.5 years)
Host Star: 1 K-class star (.74 solar masses)
Temperature: -65 to 90 F (-53 to 32 C)

Ateria is the second planet covered in my book, The Teeming Universe: An Extraterrestrial Field Guide, and it doubly serves as the first planet in the book to feature multicellular life forms. Among the world roster, its most defining trait is that the world has a wildly elliptical orbit, as opposed to a mostly circular orbit like what Earth has. This is a direct result of a very large impact Ateria had 4.45 billion years ago with another protoplanet, and because the solar system is devoid of gas giants the new orbit was never jeopardized or rectified. For the spring and summer months the world is nearer to the dimmer sun, but for more than two years the world is in the colder depths of space.

As you would expect, life has to evolve and adapt accordingly, lest they die. Many animals choose to hibernate for the long winter, while many more prefer to simply die after laying eggs in late autumn, where the eggs would stay dormant until temperatures rose. The same can be said for Ateria's equivalents to plants, which are colored a bright red to absorb the weaker suns' blue and green wavelength light. As a result of plant life being inert or sustaining very minimal activity in the long winter, which is most of the year, the planet's atmospheric oxygen levels are about 4/5ths as high as they are on our world.

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Description
Name: Ateria (uh-tear-ee-uh)
Mass: 1.48 earths
Radius: 1.10 earths
Gravity: 1.22 earths
Semi-Major Axis: .71 to 3.99 au (66.03 to 371.07 million miles)
Moons: 1 (Aupa)
Year: 1,280 earth days (3.5 years)
Host Star: 1 K-class star (.74 solar masses)
Temperature: -65 to 90 F (-53 to 32 C)

Ateria is the second planet covered in my book, The Teeming Universe: An Extraterrestrial Field Guide, and it doubly serves as the first planet in the book to feature multicellular life forms. Among the world roster, its most defining trait is that the world has a wildly elliptical orbit, as opposed to a mostly circular orbit like what Earth has. This is a direct result of a very large impact Ateria had 4.45 billion years ago with another protoplanet, and because the solar system is devoid of gas giants the new orbit was never jeopardized or rectified. For the spring and summer months the world is nearer to the dimmer sun, but for more than two years the world is in the colder depths of space.

As you would expect, life has to evolve and adapt accordingly, lest they die. Many animals choose to hibernate for the long winter, while many more prefer to simply die after laying eggs in late autumn, where the eggs would stay dormant until temperatures rose. The same can be said for Ateria's equivalents to plants, which are colored a bright red to absorb the weaker suns' blue and green wavelength light. As a result of plant life being inert or sustaining very minimal activity in the long winter, which is most of the year, the planet's atmospheric oxygen levels are about 4/5ths as high as they are on our world.

Instagram: www.instagram.com/christian_cl…

Book Link: www.amazon.com/dp/B09FCCCDRN/r…