Horos

Horos is the closest planet around Verda B and the second largest planet in the Verda System. It is rather hot.
== Physical Characteristics ==
Horos is a hot jovia, which is a near-jupiter-mass planet orbiting close to its star. Because of this, Horos has a large effect on the other planets in the system, causing rapid orbital precession. The large amount of radiation hitting the planet causes the planet to heat up and expand, making it larger than scientists thought possible due to some calculations with Hydrostatic Equilibrium, which didn't take into account temperature, due to the rudimentary computers at the time of the planet's discovery. It also causes fast winds whipping across the planet distributing heat to the night side, creating massive storms in the lower atmosphere, hidden by the surprisingly serene cloudtops.
== Atmosphere ==
Horos' atmosphere is a superheated envelope of gases that are constantly whipping across the planet at incredible speeds. The extreme pressure difference between the two sides of Horos drives winds that surpass the speed of sound. On the day side, the upper layer of the atmosphere is consisted of hot plasma, formed from ionized gases heated to extreme temperatures. Meanwhile, the gases on the nightside radiate this heat away and condense back into cooler gases, causing the worldwide pressure gradient that drives the vicious atmospheric winds.
== Orbit and Rotation ==
In the distant past, Horos orbited Verda B in a much wider and further out orbit, possibly near or even past the orbit of Von and Ora. Over time, gravitational exchange (and drag) with the protoplanetary disk around Verda B allowed Von and Ora to move closer to the star and get more eccentric orbits, and Horos to get extremely close to its host star.
Not all Terallan scientists are convinced by this explanation, however. They state that such migrations by the gas giants would have disturbed and inhibited the formation of the inner rocky planets like Atma or Tera. It is possible that Hot Jools can form very close to their stars, but this not a popular theory among Terallan scientists as of yet.
== Ra ==
Ra is the smallest, largest, and only moon of Horos. That last record kinda dampens the first two, doesn't it! It has been voted the Most Amazing Views near Horos.
=== Physical Characteristics ===
Ra is a small moon that does no have enough gravity to pull itself into a sphere. It is also the only moon of Horos. The only present theory of its formation is that it formed further out into the system, and got captured. It has been described by most scientists as the look of a giant space potato, though thats how they describe most asteroids.
Ra does have some neat features. There's an interestingly flat region near the South Pole of the moon, for unknown reasons, and there is a field of small 2-meter spikes on one side of the planet.
=== Biomes ===
Ra has two biomes.
* White Bits
* Brown Bits
== Trivia ==
* This planet has some really cool views!
== Biomes ==
Horos has four biomes.
* Night Side Storms
* Day Side Storms
* Belts
* Zones
== Trivia ==
* Horos is the closest Hot Jovia to Teralla, unless you consider Jevethra a hot jupiter, which most don't.
* Horos was the second exoplanet discovered by the Terallan Civilization.
* It can be easily spotted from every other planet around Verda B.
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