Triton (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Triton is the largest moon of the planet Neptune, discovered on October 10, 1846 by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the op...
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With a radius of 1,350 km (839 mi), about 22% smaller than Earth's moon, Triton is by far the largest satellite of Neptune. It is one of only three objects in the Solar System known to have a nitrogen-dominated atmosphere (the others are Earth and Saturn's giant moon, Titan).
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Triton is the largest of Neptune's moons. Triton is the coldest known object in the Solar System and is unusual because it orbits Neptune backwards. ... Voyager 2 photo of; Neptune's moon Triton; (NASA/JPL)
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Triton is overwhelmingly the largest of Neptune’s moons and the only large moon in the solar system to travel in a retrograde (backwards) direction around its primary. It’s an oddball for many other reasons as well. ... Seen up close by Voyager 2, Triton revealed itself to be a weird world. First, it has a polar...
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New Horizons got a great shot of Neptune's moon Triton last fall, as it was trucking toward Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. The mission was 2.33 billion ... The bottom frame is a twice-magnified view that more clearly shows the detection of Triton, Neptune’s largest moon. Neptune is the brightest object in the field and...
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Triton (pronounced /ˈtraɪtən/ trye'-tən, or as Greek Τρίτων), or Neptune I is the largest moon of the planet Neptune and the only large moon in the solar system known to have a retrograde orbit. At 2700 km diameter, it is the seventh.. ... Ask any question on Triton (moon) and get it answered FAST!
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Triton's orbit is retrograde. It is the only large moon to orbit "backwards", the only other moons with retrograde orbits are Jupiter's moons Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae and Sinope and Saturn's Phoebe all of which are less than 1/10 the diameter of Triton.
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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has reported that observations obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based instruments reveal that Neptune's largest moon, Triton, seems to have heated up significantly since the Voyager space probe visited it in 1989. The warming trend is causing part...
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Neptune's capture of its moon Triton in a binary–planet gravitational encounter ... Triton is Neptune's principal satellite and is by far the largest retrograde satellite in the Solar System (its mass is 40 per cent greater than that of Pluto).
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