Triton The Moon of Neptune

1. Triton The Moon of Neptune By:Sammy Quintanilla Astronomy, 7th per.

2. History of Triton The moon was discovered by British astronomer William Lassell on October 10, 1846. Triton is named after the Greek sea god Triton, the son of Poseidon (the Greek god comparable to the Roman Neptune). It was first visited by the voyager 2 spacecraft.

3. Where did it come from.?? Triton is thought to have been captured from the Kuiper belt.

4. Tritons Movements Rotational Period: 5.87685 Earth Days Revolutionary Period: 5.87685 Earth Days  Triton moves in a retrograde motion around Neptune which means spins the opposite way of everything else. WHY IS THIS????? Triton must have been captured by Neptunes gravity.

5. Physical Attributes Diameter: 2,700 kilometers (1,680 miles) Mass: 2.14e+22kg …..IN OTHER WORDS REALLY BIG!!!! Axial Tilt: 157 Degrees Orbital Tilt: 30 Degrees 55% of Triton's surface is covered with frozen nitrogen, with water ice comprising 15–35% and dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) forming the remaining 10–20%. Temperatures reach about -391 Degrees farenheit.

6. Tritons Atmosphere Triton has a nitrogen atmosphere, with trace amounts of carbon monoxide and small amounts of methane near the surface. Picture in background shows a cloud formed in the atmosphere of triton.

7. Is the coldest item in our galaxy getting warmer?? Triton is colder than any other measured object in the Solar System but with an observation from earth proves it may be getting warmer.!!!!

8. Geysers Geyser-like eruptions of invisible nitrogen gas and entrained dust from beneath the surface of triton.

9. Age of the moon Five million to six million years old.

10. Texture Triton's western hemisphere consists of a strange series of fissures and depressions known as "cantaloupe terrain“.

11. THE END.!!!!