Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Found another moon of Neptune - BBC News

American scientist discovered the most distant planet in the solar system – Neptune – the fourteenth in a row satellite. U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reports that the author of this discovery was Mark Showalter (Mark Showalter) of the California-based private non-profit research institute SETI. Initially, the organization has been looking for extraterrestrial life.

This combined image shows the position of Neptune and its satellites (illustration NASA, ESA, M. Showalter / SETI Institute).

A study of more than 150 archival photographs taken in 2004-2009 space telescope “Hubble”, Mark Shoulteru succeeded in detecting previously unknown Neptune’s natural satellite, which was given the code name S/2004 N1 , ITAR-TASS reported. According to experts NASA, the size of an astronomical object is a diameter of about 19 kilometers. Thus, the question is about the smallest of the 14 satellites of Neptune. Cputnik S/2004 N1 makes one revolution around Neptune for about 23 hours.

This shows the orbit of Neptune's moons closest to (all of them were open device

According to the degree of light emission open Marc Shoulterom moon is about 100 million times darker than most inconspicuous star that can be seen in the sky with the naked eye. In particular, and for this reason S/2004 N1 did not find an American interplanetary probe “Voyager 2″, which flew by Neptune in 1989.

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