Nereid, or Neptune II, is the third-largest moon of Neptune. It has the most eccentric orbit of all known moons in the Solar System. It was the second...

satellite, Nereid, in 1949, and another 40 years passed before Proteus, Neptune's second-largest moon, was discovered in 1989. Triton is unique among moons of...

In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides (/ˈnɪəriɪdz/ NEER-ee-idz; Ancient Greek: Νηρηΐδες, romanized: Nērēḯdes; sg. Νηρηΐς, Nērēḯs, also Νημερτές)...

Nereids may also refer to: Nereid (moon), the third-largest moon in the Neptune system Nereid (worm), a polychaete worm Nereids (organization), a fictional...

Triton is rather unusual for an irregular moon; if it is excluded, then Nereid is the largest irregular moon around Neptune. It is currently thought that...

Farkas-Takács, A. I.; Szabó, G. M.; Szabó, R.; Kiss, L. L.; et al. (April 2016). "Nereid from space: Rotation, size and shape analysis from K2, Herschel and Spitzer...

August 1989. Proteus was the third moon of Neptune to be discovered, 40 years after the discovery of Neptune's moon Nereid in 1949. Upon discovery, Proteus...

second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System, has the...

and Neptune's Nereid have rotation periods in the range of ten hours, whereas their orbital periods are hundreds of days. No "moons of moons" or subsatellites...

like many of the outer satellites of Neptune, is named after one of the Nereids, the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris. Before the announcement of its...

Neptune VI, is the fourth-closest inner moon of Neptune. It is named after Galatea, one of the fifty Nereids of Greek legend, with whom Cyclops Polyphemus...

officially adopted many decades later. Until the discovery of the second moon Nereid in 1949, Triton was commonly referred to as "the satellite of Neptune"...

the Moon. Kuiper discovered two natural satellites of planets in the Solar System, namely Uranus's satellite Miranda and Neptune's satellite Nereid. In...

Telescope. On 18 February 2011, it was officially named Actaea after the Nereid nymph named Actaea. Actaea orbits its primary every 5.493 d at a distance...

could have a common origin in the break-up of a larger moon. Neso is named after one of the Nereids. Before it was officially named on 3 February 2007 (IAUC...

Greek mythology. Galatea is also the name of a sea-nymph, one of the fifty Nereids (daughters of Nereus) mentioned by Hesiod and Homer. In Theocritus Idylls...

like many of the outer satellites of Neptune, is named after one of the Nereids; Sao was associated with sailing and is referred to as "The rescuer" or...

Gauguin Tritons and Nereids, 1500 painting by Piero di Cosimo Other Triton and Nereid, two Moons of Neptune Triton (disambiguation) Nereid (disambiguation)...

Σελήνη pronounced [selɛ̌ːnɛː] seh-LEH-neh, meaning "Moon") is the goddess and personification of the Moon. Also known as Mene, she is traditionally the daughter...

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lover of Zeus who was turned into a cow Io, an alternate spelling of the nereid Ino, later known as Leukothea, who in the Odyssey gave Odysseus a veil that...

the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the Solar System, though Nereid's average eccentricity of 0.75 is greater. Moons of Uranus Blue, Jennifer (2008-10-16)...

simply referred to as "the satellite of Neptune". Later, the second known moon, Nereid, was named by its discoverer in 1949, Gerard P. Kuiper, soon after its...

irregular satellite of Neptune. It is named after Psamathe, one of the Nereids. Psamathe was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard and David C. Jewitt in 2003...

are currently no named features on Nereid. When features are discovered, they are to be named after individual nereids. Features on other satellites of...

other Uranian irregular satellites. Neptune's largest irregular satellite, Nereid, has a similarly high albedo as Caliban. Somewhat inconsistent reports put...

near-encounter with the moon Nereid before it came within 4,400 km of Neptune's atmosphere on 25 August, then passed close to the planet's largest moon Triton later...

goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus. When described as a Nereid in Classical myths, Thetis was the daughter...

planḗtai, meaning "wanderers". In antiquity, this word referred to the Sun, Moon, and five points of light visible by the naked eye that moved across the...

Psamathe may refer to: Psamathe (Nereid) Psamathe (Crotopus), Daughter of Crotopus Psamathe (moon), moon of Neptune Psamathe (polychaete), polychaete...