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.
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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.
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.
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.
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Sheppard's Neptune's Known Satellites Page: http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/users/sheppard/satellites/nepsatdata.html Scott S.
Sheppard's Pluto's.