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Triton

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Triton

Neptune's largest moon that orbits the wrong way/Moons

Triton is the largest moon of Neptune and the only large moon in the solar system with a retrograde orbit, meaning it orbits backwards relative to its planet's rotation. This strongly suggests Neptune captured it from the Kuiper Belt, which is basically cosmic shoplifting. Its surface temperature of about 38 K makes it one of the coldest known objects in the solar system.

Measurements

Diameter2.7 million m
1.18Great Barrier Reefs
9.7 millionFootball lengths

2,706.8 km

Mass21.4 sextillion kg
42.8 quintillionGrand pianos
856 septillionRice grain weights
10.7 sextillionChihuahuas
Orbital radius355 million m
373 trillionthsGlobular cluster widths
1.5 billionWine glass heights

354,800 km from Neptune

Orbital period507,773 s
507,773Mississippis
17.6Workdays

About 5.88 days (retrograde)

Surface temperature38 K
1 tenthsBoiling water
2.8 hundredthsCandle flames

One of the coldest surfaces in the solar system

Orbital speed4,390 m/s
219,500Typing fingers
293Galloping horses
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