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Amalthea

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A legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
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Energy: 50/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Plague.
Female Pearlcatcher
This dragon is hibernating.
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Personal Style

Apparel

Copper Harvest Sandals
Copper Harvest Tail Twist
Autumn Breeze
Bewitching Ruby Taildecor
Bewitching Ruby Pendants
Glowing Red Clawtips
Teardrop Citrine Earrings

Skin

Accent: golden ascension

Scene

Measurements

Length
4.55 m
Wingspan
4.97 m
Weight
474.61 kg

Genetics

Primary Gene
Wine
Harlequin
Wine
Harlequin
Secondary Gene
Wine
Jester
Wine
Jester
Tertiary Gene
Mist
Underbelly
Mist
Underbelly

Hatchday

Hatchday
Apr 09, 2023
(1 year)

Breed

Breed
Adult
Pearlcatcher

Eye Type

Eye Type
Plague
Rare
Level 1 Pearlcatcher
EXP: 0 / 245
Meditate
Contuse
STR
7
AGI
6
DEF
7
QCK
6
INT
6
VIT
6
MND
7

Lineage

Parents

  • none

Offspring

  • none

Biography

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HATCHED DOUBLE

Just when I'd given up hatching eggs for my FR anniversary I get YOU! An XXY Wine no less, which is reasonably popular iirc. With matchy Plague eyes that look nice in Pastel so a bonus :D Also born Easter Sunday which was pretty neat cos red wine pairs well with chocolate? Or something hshfjfk

Named after one of Jupiter's moons since she looks a little bit like the Voyager 1 color image of the moon taken in 1979. Also maybe The Last Unicorn cos PC have horns ok bye cx
ORIGINAL LOOK: NOCTURNE: Triple Basic
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COMPLETED: 19th of April 2023 (Jester gene bought)
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Experimental Artwork by scarletite
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Qwq4utl.jpg 		Amalthea was discovered Sept. 9, 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard. Orbiting within Io's orbit, which is the innermost of the four largest moons of Jupiter (called the Galilean moons), are four smaller moons named Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe.

All of the moons within this grouping are oddly shaped, lacking either the mass and/or fluidity of composition to pull themselves into a reasonably spherical shape. The Galileo spacecraft has revealed some surface features, including impact craters, hills, and valleys.

Amalthea is the largest within this grouping with a mean radius of about 83.5 ± 2.4 km. Amalthea orbits 181,400 km from its parent planet, Jupiter. Amalthea takes 0.498 Earth days to complete one orbit.

Amalthea is the reddest object in the solar system and it appears to give out more heat than it receives from the sun. This may be because, as it orbits within Jupiter's powerful magnetic field, electric currents are included in the moon's core. Alternatively, the heat could be from tidal stresses.

Amalthea and Thebe rotate on their axes once for each orbit around Jupiter, always keeping the same side facing the planet. This orbit takes about one-half an Earth day for Amalthea and two-thirds an Earth day for Thebe. Amalthea and the moon Thebe provide the material for the Gossamer ring.

Since Io orbits about 422,000 km above Jupiter and, at this close distance, is subjected to extreme tidal flexing from Jupiter's gravity, one would imagine that this even closer satellite would be pulled to pieces. However, because it is so small (Amalthea's diameter is 1/19th that of Io's diameter) it is relatively immune to the effects of tidal forces.

Since Amalthea is so close to its parent planet its orbit will eventually decay and it will fall into the planet.
Originally designated Jupiter V, Camille Flammarion suggested the name for this moon. Amalthea is named for a naiad who nursed the newborn Jupiter. Amalthea is often depicted with a goat, whose milk is said to have fed the infant Jupiter.

(NASA.gov).
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