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Neptune - eighth planet from the Sun

A Captured Ice Moon

Out There    NYT    6 November 2014

A Captured Ice Moon

Video        Out There        The New York Times        6 November 2014

Neptune’s moon Triton was the last stop

on Voyager 2’s tour of the outer planets.

It is one of the coldest objects

in the solar system

and a big brother of Pluto,

which NASA will visit next year.

Produced by:

Dennis Overbye, Jason Drakeford and Jonathan Corum

Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1GqBJs7

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Neptune        UK / USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Neptune

https://www.theguardian.com/science/
neptune

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/
1222906151/dont-look-so-blue-neptune-
now-astronomers-know-this-planets-true-color

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/
science/quaoar-rings-kuiper-belt.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/21/
neptune-and-its-rings-shown-in-striking-new-light-by-webb-telescope

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/
science/exploring-the-solar-system.html - July 30, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/
science/neptune-moons-orbit.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/
762212454/ad-astra-director-says-cosmic-sounds-helped-create-celestial-world

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/15/
202406727/new-noon-found-orbiting-neptune-but-what-to-call-it

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/07/12/
137802681/for-neptune-its-been-one-year-since-its-discovery

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/07/01/
137550389/neptunes-day-is-shorter-than-was-thought

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/aug/19/
starsgalaxiesandplanets.research

gas giant        USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/07/01/
137550389/neptunes-day-is-shorter-than-was-thought

 world > Quaoar        USA

Quaoar (pronounced KWA-wahr,

and the name of the creator god

for the Indigenous Tongva people

who live around Los Angeles)

orbits the sun in the Kuiper belt,

a region of frozen debris

beyond Neptune that includes Pluto.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/
science/quaoar-rings-kuiper-belt.html

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