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| Planetary Profile: |
Neptune Lithograph From
NASA
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Discovered
by:
Voyager 2
Date of
discovery:
1989
Distance
from Neptune:
48,230 km
Radius:
29 km
Orbital
eccentricity:
0.000
Orbital
inclination:
4.74 degrees
Orbital
period:
0.294396 day
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Natural
Satellites Of Neptune
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on links to learn more about
the moons of Neptune.
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Naiad, the
last satellite discovered, is about 54 kilometers (33
miles) in diameter and orbits Neptune every 7 hours and 6
minutes about 23,200 kilometers (14,400 miles) above the
clouds. It is irregularly shaped and shows no sign of any
geological modification. Naiad circles the planet in the
same direction as Neptune rotates, and remains close to
Neptune's equatorial plane. The above image has been
smeared so that Naiad appears highly elongated.
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