ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA Edition 428193 - Earth English EGO 0602-00911069611: Summary EGO 0602-00911069611 is the fifth satellite of EGO 0602-00911069544 - a fourteen (14) Jovian mass Y-dwarf or 'brown dwarf' informally named 'Freya' - and fourth life bearing world of 'Freya's Necklace'.1 In reality a water world with a (2.8% saline) global ocean that averages 140km in depth – 272km deepest known point – beneath 2 to 6km thick surface ice.2 Continual volcanism at the ocean floor creates hot water columns which warms the ocean and periodically melts the surface. This results in geysers and other reworking of the ice ensuring no long term external features. This body has no recognized common name.3 Mass 0.007 Earths, density 2.7g/cm3, diameter 3118km. Rotational axis tilt is 5.1 degrees with rotation captured to the orbital period of 151624 seconds (1.75 days).4 Orbital eccentricity 0.011, inclined 13.0 degrees, and mean distance of 1.01 million (106) km. Magnetic field is 0.1% the strength of Earth's. The interior is built upon a small liquid nickel-iron core – diameter ~550km. Around the core is a liquid silicate mantle that 'plastifies' as little as 2km beneath the crust. As such this moon displays a pseudo plate tectonics. The crust and upper mantle are nickel and iron poor pointing to long period of differentiation.5 These facts suggest that EGO 0602-00911069611 may have occupied a much tighter orbit around 'Freya' in the distant past. Biodiversity is difficult to estimate. Local ecologies are thermoconsumptive.6 Local biochemistry is carbon based. Complex organisms rely upon cupric-argentic oxidation for energy. But heredity is encoded using transcellular webs; a mechanism which gives rise to exceptionally long lived and self-mutative life forms. Every organism may be regarded as its own species. Genetic encoding transcends an organism's component cells. A consequence being that information retained by a web is several orders of magnitude greater than that retainable by known nucleic materials such as DNA.7 Local genetics have thus evolved error corrective functions much like parity. And even more remarkable, update functions which revise an organism's characteristics for survivability. In such biology, survival is the success of the individual over its genetic inheritance since genes rewrite themselves. Within an organism, cells perform functions based upon their location within the web. Cells are non-specialized, modular and easily replaced. This makes for very robust life forms which do not suffer from genetic aphasia. Components may wear out but are readily replaced if raw materials and energy are accessible.8 On EGO 0602-00911069611, 72% of all life forms bioluminance. The cause for this high percentage is not understood. However the inclusion of light reveals the existence of large well ordered communities beneath the ice layer.9 Within such locations local organisms are observed to live symbiotically, creating a collective environment suitable for all members. This raises the question of intelligences. These communities have indications of culture but no apparent technology. Thus some scholars refer to these localities as 'gardens' or by corresponding translation. Notes: EGO: Encyclopedia Galactica Object See references: 1Definition: 'Freya's Necklace' 2Civilization Humanity: Scientific Standards 3Civilization Humanity: Naming Conventions For Astronomical Objects 4Definition: 'Captured Rotation' 5Definition: 'Planetary Differentiation' 6Definition: 'Thermoconsumptive Ecology' 7Definition: 'DNA: Deoxyribonucleic Acid' 8Transcellular Web Heredity: Advantages and Disadvantages 9The largest community consists of over 210,000 individuals and is known to have existed continuously for over 32,700 years.