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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
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
In Depth | Triton – NASA Solar System Exploration Scientists think Triton is a Kuiper Belt Object captured by Neptune's gravity millions of years ago It shares many similarities with Pluto, the best known world of the Kuiper Belt Like our own moon, Triton is locked in synchronous rotation with Neptune―one side faces the planet at all times
RPS 3D Viewer - NASA Solar System Exploration Moons About Moons BY DESTINATION Earth (1) Mars (2) Jupiter (95) Saturn (83) Uranus (27) Neptune (14) Pluto (5) Asteroids, Comets Meteors About Asteroids, Comets Meteors BY TYPE
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 | Kuiper Belt – NASA Solar System Exploration As Uranus and Neptune drifted farther outward, they passed through the dense disk of small, icy bodies left over after the giant planets formed Neptune's orbit was the farthest out, and its gravity bent the paths of countless icy bodies inward toward the other giants
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
Bibliography - NASA Solar System Exploration Scott S Sheppard's Neptune's Known Satellites Page: http: www dtm ciw edu users sheppard satellites nepsatdata html Scott S Sheppard's Pluto's Known Satellites Page: http: home dtm ciw edu users sheppard satellites plutosatdata html