Nereid
Neptune II
Nereid ( "NEER ee ed" ) is the outermost of Neptune's known satellites and the third largest: orbit: 5,513,400 km distance from Neptune diameter: 340 km mass: ?
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(nr´d), in astronomy, one of the eight known moons, or natural satellites, of Neptune.
Nereid
Neptune II
Nereid [NEER-ee-ed] was discovered in 1949 by astronomer Gerard Kuiper. Nereid is about 340 kilometers (210 miles) in diameter and is so far from Neptune that it requires 360 days to make one orbit.
Nereid
The outer satellite of Neptune (radius 150-250 km). Period about 360 days direct. It has the most eccentric orbit (e = 0.76) of any natural satellite. Discovered by Kuiper in 1950.
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Neptune's outermost moon is Nereid. It is the smaller of Neptune's 2 larger moons. It has a VERY elliptical orbit, going as close as 867,000 miles from Neptune and as far as 6 million miles from it; it may be a captured asteroid.
Nereid is the outermost of Neptune's moons, and the third largest. This world which was discovered in 1949 by Kuiper, has a strange shaped orbit.
Triton, Nereid, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, plus 5 to receive names
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Nereid (NASA SP-7, 1965) A satellite of Neptune orbiting at a mean distance of 5,570,000 kilometers.
The eighth moon, Nereid, has a highly elliptical orbit that causes it to swing around Neptune at various distances. When closest, it is 1,342,530 km (834,210 miles) from the planet.
These nymphs (the Nereids) complained to Poseidon, who felt he had to defend his own reputation. So he sent a flood to devastate Cepheus' kingdom.
For example, Jupiter's moon Himalia, Saturn's moon Phoebe and Neptune's moon Nereid have rotation period in the range of 10 hours compared with their orbital periods of hundreds of days.
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The daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and Cassiopia who claimed to be more beautiful that all the Nereids put together.
Before the Voyager encounter Neptune was known to have two satellites, Triton and Nereid with diameters of 3800 and 300 km. Voyager found six more with diameters ranging from 50 to 200 km.
While combing her long locks one day, Cassiopeia dared to claim that she was more beautiful than the sea nymphs called the Nereids. There were 50 Nereids, daughters of Nereus, the so-called Old Man of the Sea.
Neptune has two large moons that are easily seen from Earth, Triton and Nereid. Voyager 2 discovered six additional moons. One of these is actually larger than Nereid, but could not be seen easily from Earth because it orbits close to Neptune.
Neptune's outermost (and third largest) moon is Nereid, which has an irregular shape. It is the smaller of Neptune's 2 larger moons.
Neptune also has six outer irregular satellites, including Nereid, whose orbits are much farther from Neptune, have high inclinations, and are mixed between prograde and retrograde.
In Greek mythology, Delphinus is identified with the dolphin that helped the god Poseidon win over Amphitrite, a Nereid who had been fleeing from his advances.
Nereid
Neptune is the eighth or, occasionally, the ninth planet from the Sun due to Pluto's eccentric orbit, and the outermost gas giant in our solar system.
Prior to 1989, Neptune had existed as just a tiny pale blue disc in telescope eyepieces, accompanied by two points of light, its moons Triton and Nereid.
Before the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited, we knew of two satellites Triton, and Nereid. Voyager 2 discovered six new ones, which are named Naiad, Galatea, Thalassa, Larissa, Proteus, and Despina.
According to the first one, Greek god Poseidon wanted to marry Amphitrite, a nereid. She, however, wanting to protect her virginity, fled to the Atlas mountains. Her suitor then sent out several searchers, among them a certain Delphinus.
En la mitología griega, Casiopea se jactó que ella y su hija eran más hermosas que las Nereidas. Estas se quejaron al dios del mar Poseidón, quien envió a un monstruo para que destruyera a la tierra de Cefeo.
Cassiopeia was the mother of Andromeda, and because of her boasting that she was more beautiful than the sea nymphs, the Nereids, she was forced by the god Poseidon to sacrifice her daughter to the sea monster Cetus.
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Neptune has eight known moons: Triton, Thalassa, Naiad, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus and Nereid.
Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Neptune on August 25, 1989.
Neptune was named after the Roman god of the sea.
Her mother, Cassiopeia boasted that she and her daughter were more beautiful than the Nereids (or sea nymphs), which were the daughters of Poseidon (or Neptune), the god of the sea.
Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905-1973) was a Dutch-American astronomer who predicted the existence of the Kuiper belt in 1951. In 1948, Kuiper discovered and named Miranda, a moon of Uranus and Neptune's second moon, Nereid.
So far, eight moons have been discovered orbiting Neptune. They are (from nearest the planet to furthest): Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton and Nereid.
Nereid, the second satellite (discovered in 1949), has a diameter of only about 320 km (about 200 mi). Six new satellites were discovered by the Voyager 2 planetary probe in 1989. Neptune is also circled by six thin rings.
Thus dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, though the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general....
s (who were spirits of the trees), Nereids (who inhabited the sea), river gods, Satyr ...
Triton's strange orbit and the very elliptical orbit of Neptune's other major moon, Nereid, leads to the proposal that Triton was captured by Neptune when Triton passed too close to it.
 See also: Neptune, Earth, Orbit, Planet, Solar
  
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