Saltius
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Salt World
Extreme Activity
Why is this a Salt World?Your planet is rich in sodium (11.7%) and chlorine (7.8%) but starved of hydrogen (0.0%), so instead of a water cycle it precipitates its salt into blinding evaporite flats.
Salt worlds need real halite chemistry - sodium and chlorine together, not just one - plus a dry recipe, since any real water cycle would dissolve the crust as fast as it forms. A warm 250-500K band keeps brines mobile enough to precipitate at the surface: halite plains, brine pans, salt-crusted ridges.
Classification Criteria:
✓ Sodium: 11.7% + Chlorine: 7.8% (min 3% each, 12% combined)✓ Hydrogen: 0.0% (<5% - dry enough for evaporites)✓ Temperature: 379K (250-500K warm band)✓ Silicon + Iron + Magnesium: 57.1% (>=15% - a rocky base to salt-crust over)
Habitability ScoreUninhabitable
Contributing Factors
water0
No water - the recipe has no hydrogen and oxygen to form it
geology40
Extreme volcanic activity may be hazardous
rotation10
Near tidally locked - one hemisphere perpetually scorched, other frozen, narrow habitable twilight zone only
Organic Chemistry0
Limited organic chemistry potential - chlorine-laced environment attacks organic molecules
atmosphere16
Atmosphere present but composition not ideal for life (partially stripped by slow rotation)
temperature40
Extreme temperature - very difficult for life
magnetic Field30
No magnetic field - vulnerable to solar radiation — but the remnant's shock fronts flood this orbit with cosmic rays
Physical Properties
Mass
5.60x Earth (3.34e+25 kg)Radius
1.78x Earth (11,314 km)Surface Gravity
1.78x Earth (17.4 m/s²)Surface Temperature
379 K (106 °C / 223 °F)Rotation Period
1,221.0 hours/day (slower than Earth)Orbital Environment
Star Type
SNR-type (Supernova Remnant)Distance from Star
0.38 AU (56.8 million km)Orbital Period
72 daysAtmosphere
Thin dry atmosphere with sodium dust and chlorine traces
Elemental Composition
Si - Silicon
31.2%
Fe - Iron
15.6%
O - Oxygen
13.0%
Surface Characteristics
Blinding white evaporite flats - halite plains, brine pans, and salt-crusted ridgesClosest Real Exoplanet
LHS 1903 e86% similar
Orbiting LHS 1903| Yours | LHS 1903 e | |
|---|---|---|
| Mass | 5.60 × Earth | 5.79 × Earth |
| Radius | 1.62 × Earth | 1.73 × Earth |
| Density (composition) | 7.21 g/cm³ | 6.16 g/cm³ |
| Temperature | 379.2 K | 333.0 K |
| Starlight received | 3.46 × Earth | 2.05 × Earth |
| Star temperature | — | 3,664 K |
Moons
Moon 1rings1.3% - 1.9 radii
Inside the Roche limit (1.92 planet radii): torn apart into a ring system.