Discovery of New Addition to Solar System
TURKEY
28 Temmuz 2013
The North American Space Agency (NASA) have discovered a new satellite orbitting Neptune at a distance of 105,250 kilometres. The discovery was made by the SETI institute’s astronomer Mark Showalter. The moon, which has been named S/2004 N 1, is the 14th of Neptunes satellites. At a diameter of 19.3 kilometres it is the planet’s smallest satellite.
Neptune is the smallest planet in our solar system, and Triton, its largest moon, was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.