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 …
Planet Compare – 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 …
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Neptune is the eighth and most distant planet in our solar system. It was discovered...discovered in 1846. Neptune has 16 known moons....Explore...
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; …
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 …
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, …
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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 …
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