Epizon

Epizon is a terrestrial planet in the Aster System. It is the first and smallest planet in the system. 
== Physical Characteristics ==
Epizon is a terrestrial planet. Even though it's quite large, having a radius of 5 859 km, it's still the smallest planet in the system. It has a neutral grey color. As all planets in the Aster System, Epizon is extremely cold. Water ice can be found on Epizon, but it's very likely that in the past, before Aster was a white dwarf, Epizon had oceans, rivers and lakes containing water. Ancient water flow signs, such as river valleys point to this. Epizon has a very cratered surface, due to it not having any substantial atmosphere. It lost it, due to Aster's intense stellar wind in the past.
== Orbit ==
Epizon orbits Aster every 2.5 years with a speed of around 13 kilometers per second. It has a relatively high eccentricty of 0.15, making it's orbit highly elliptical. The farthest it gets from Aster is at about 2.3 astronomical units, while the closest is at about 1.7 astronomical units.
== History and Future ==
Epizon formed about 4 billion years ago. In the past it had a thick atmosphere and oceans of flowing water. It lost them, due to Aster evolving into a red giant. As Aster turned into a white dwarf, Epizon transformed into a frozen world. Epizon's orbit is slowly decaying and in about 10 billion years from today, if it doesn't get perturbed by any massive object passing through the system, Epizon will reach Aster's roche limit and will get ripped apart into an enourmous disk.
== Colonization ==
The Verdan Federation has settled a few bases on Epizon and has put satellites into an orbit around it. There have been plans of terraforming Epizon, but it is not entirely known if it's suited for terraformation.
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