- In Depth | Proteus – NASA Solar System Exploration
Overview Proteus is one of the largest of Neptune's known moons, although it is not as big as Triton The moon has an odd box-like shape and if it had just a little more mass it would be able to transform into a sphere Proteus orbits Neptune about every 27 hours
- Planet Compare – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
- RPS 3D Viewer - NASA Solar System Exploration
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- Neptune 3D Model – NASA Solar System Exploration
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- In Depth | Neptune Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration
Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper (for whom the Kuiper Belt was named) found Neptune's third-largest moon, Nereid, in 1949 He missed Proteus, the second-largest because it's too dark and too close to Neptune for telescopes of that era
- In Depth | Our Solar System – NASA Solar System Exploration
Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids
- 12602 Search Results for neptune - NASA Solar System Exploration
Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in our solar system It was discovered discovered in 1846 Neptune has 16 known moons Explore
- Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud - NASA Solar System Exploration
In 1943, astronomer Kenneth Edgeworth hypothesized that many small, icy bodies exist in a disc in the region beyond Neptune, having condensed from widely spaced ancient material, and that from time to time one of them visits the inner solar system
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