ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA Edition 428193 - Earth English Planet Azure: Summary Planet Azure is an unofficial Language English1 name for EGO 1730-00001021082 a habitable planet 1217 light years from Earth in the constellation Draco.2 This body is the fourth satellite of EGO 1730-00000627719 - a seven (7) Earth mass water giant subsequently orbiting a class A4 white dwarf, EGO 1730-00000191610.3 'Azure' refers to the intense blue4 colour of the planet's hue, other names include 'The Blue World' and comparable translations. Azure has no pending IAU5 name. Azure rotates with an axial tilt of 22.1° and period of 79488 sec (0.92 days). Its sub-system orbit follows a 0.11 eccentricity ellipse inclined 9.8°, mean distance of 1.36 million km with a 64.7 day period. In contrast, the sub-system's orbital path is a 0.04 eccentricity ellipse inclined 0.1°, 472 million km mean distance from the central star. Orbital period is 1525.5 days (4.17 years). A terrestrial body6 Azure's mass is 0.98 Earths, density 8.68 g/cm3 and diameter 10981 km. Its interior consists of a large solid nickel-iron inner core surrounded by a liquid iron outer core. The core rotates 4% faster than the rest of the planet creating a magnetic field 9% stronger than Earth's. Around the core is a thick semi-molten silicate mantel. The surface crust is broken into a series of tectonic plates; four oceanic, five continental. The current epoch of continental drift has been active for at least 800 million years. Azure's approximate age is 3.6 billion years. The surface is 66% covered by 4.1% saline oceans averaging 7100m in depth - 9710m maximum. Above sea level, the surface presents a wide variety of terrains such as mountains, deserts and plains. This landscape is irrigated by an extensive network of narrow fresh water rivers fed from ocean evaporation to inland seas, lakes and glaciers. The highest feature is 9.1km on the north continent. The atmosphere is comprised of 75.1% nitrogen, 23.4% oxygen, 0.8% water vapour, 0.2% argon and trace materials. 90% of atmospheric mass extends 15km above sea level varying 8% from pole to equator. Surface pressure at sea level averages at 100.5kPa. Biodiversity is estimated at four (4) million distinct species - 82% aquatic. The ecology is 99.6% photoconsumptive with thermoconsumptive mico-ecologies in the deep oceans near tectonic boundaries.7 Biology is based on carbon compounds utilizing a six (6) nucleotide dual helix heredity encoding mechanism. Biodiversity includes recognizable categories of fauna and microbial life. Animal-like life forms represent only 0.001% of catalogued species with no animal life detected outside the oceans. Anthropologists suggest that Azure is undergoing early stages of its own 'Cambrian Explosion'8 and the biodiversity will radically change during the current epoch. Though not within their Sphere of Influence,9 Azure has been explored by two automated missions from Civilization Humanity.10 Travel time using conventional space flight technology is 16.6 years - manned exploration is not feasible. Azure is considered to be the most Earth-like of all known exo-planets within technological reach of Humanity. There is no evidence of a native technical civilization. Notes: EGO: Encyclopedia Galactica Object 1Civilization Humanity: Linguistic Types 2Civilization Humanity: Scientific Standards 3Civilization Humanity: Classification Conventions For Astronomical Objects 4Civilization Humanity: CIE Colour Chromaticity Table 5Civilization Humanity: International Astronomical Union 6Definition: Terrestrial Planet 7Definition: Photoconsumption and Thermoconsumption Ecologies 8Definition: Cambrian Explosion 9Definition: 'Sphere Of Influence' 10Civilization Humanity: Project Azure