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Despina
Despina in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Neptune .
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Naiad
Naiad in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Neptune .
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Nereid
Nereid , in astronomy, one of the eight known moons, or natural satellites, of Neptune .
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Proteus
Proteus , in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Neptune .
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Thalassa
Thalassa , in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Neptune .
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Percival Lowell
Percival Lowell 1855-1916, American astronomer, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1876; brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell. He visited Korea and Japan, where he acted as counselor and foreign secretary to the Korean Special Mission to the United States and wrote several books about East Asia....
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Triton
Triton , in astronomy, innermost and largest of the eight known moons, or natural satellites, of Neptune .
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Neptune
Neptune in Roman religion and mythology, god of water. He was presumably an indigenous god of fertility, but in later times he was identified with the Greek Poseidon , god of the sea. At his festival, the Neptunalia (July 23), arbors were dedicated to him.
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superior planet
superior planet Any planet whose orbit is farther from the Sun (and hence larger in radius) than that of the Earth, namely Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune....
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Neptune
Neptune in astronomy, 8th planet from the sun at a mean distance of about 2.8 billion mi (4.5 billion km) with an orbit lying between those of Uranus and the dwarf planet Pluto; its period of revolution is about 165 years. (Pluto has such a highly elliptical orbit that from 1979 to 1999 it was clos...
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