<p>The chemical makeup of space dust -- the stuff  which agglomerates into planets -- is dependent on the history of supernovas and neutron stars and the like which created the atoms in a given region of space.  This is unlikely to bear any relationship to the size or age of the star around which said items revolve. </p>

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2018-05-15T08:34:49.220Z
Then it is as I suspected: Master of Orion has it wrong
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2018-05-16T18:44:19.543Z
Someone should make a space 4X game with realistic star systems
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2018-05-14T14:57:38.357Z
Carl Witthoft
<p>Simply put, would, say, rocky planets orbiting red dwarfs have a noticably different chemical makeup than rocky planets orbiting B-type main sequence stars? <em>Mutatis mutandis</em> gas giants and the other types of host stars.</p>

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Is there any difference among exoplanets in composition due to host star?
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# Is there any difference among exoplanets in composition due to host star?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-14)

Simply put, would, say, rocky planets orbiting red dwarfs have a noticably different chemical makeup than rocky planets orbiting B-type main sequence stars? *Mutatis mutandis* gas giants and the other types of host stars.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-05-14. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

The chemical makeup of space dust -- the stuff which agglomerates into planets -- is dependent on the history of supernovas and neutron stars and the like which created the atoms in a given region of space. This is unlikely to bear any relationship to the size or age of the star around which said items revolve.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Then it is as I suspected: Master of Orion has it wrong  
> **username_0**: Someone should make a space 4X game with realistic star systems  

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