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	Despina
		Despina is a satellite of the planet Neptune.
		Compared with the satellites of other planets of the solar system, Despina is a small Moon with a diameter of 148 km and an unknown mass.
		Despina is an average distance of 52526 km from Neptune and completes its revolution of Neptune in 0.33 days.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /moons/despina.htm (61 words)

	Neptune's Moon Despina
		Despina, only 27,700 kilometers (17,200 miles) from Neptune's clouds, orbits every 8 hours.
		It is irregularly shaped and shows no sign of any geological modification.
		Despina circles the planet in the same direction as Neptune rotates, and remains close to Neptune's equatorial plane.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/despina.htm (51 words)

	Despina (moon) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Despina ("dess PEE nuh" or "dess PYE nuh") is the third known moon of Neptune.
		It is named after Despina, a nymph who was a daughter of Poseidon.
		Despina is irregularly shaped and shows no sign of any geological modification.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Despina_%28moon%29 (95 words)

	Astronomy Answers: Universe Family Tree: Moon
		This table shows the moons that are on average the furthest from or the closest to the center of their planet, measured in units of 1000 km.
		The orbits of moons that are far enough away from their planet are influenced by the gravity of the Sun.
		The next table shows the moons with the highest and lowest equilibrium temperature (average surface temperature), based on the visual geometric albedo of the moons, and measured in kelvin (K) and degrees Celsius (°C).
	www.astro.uu.nl /~strous/AA/en/boom/maan.html (871 words)

	Despina (moon) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Despina is the third known moon of Neptune.
		Gedichte und Prosa von Despina Malakov Die Literaturseiten der Schriftstellerin Despina Malakov mit Gedichten, Prosa und vielen Tipps für junge Autoren.
		Despina, Luna de Neptuno Datos y foto de este satélite (Neptuno V).
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Despina_(moon).html (406 words)

	NATURAL SATELLITE FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Several moons are thought to be captured asteroids; others may be fragments of larger moons shattered by impacts, or (in the case of Earth's Moon) a portion of the planet itself blasted into orbit by a large impact.
		Most moons in the solar system are tidally locked to their primaries, meaning that one side of the moon is always turned toward the planet.
		Exceptions are Saturn's moon Hyperion, which rotates chaotically due to a variety of external influences, and the outermost moons of the gas giants, which are too far away to become 'locked' (an example is Saturn's moon Phoebe).
	www.witwik.com /natural_satellite (480 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Neptune (planet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Astronomers had speculated that the gravitational pull from nearby moons caused smaller particles to form the concentrated debris arcs, but the new images showed that this theory is incorrect.
		Larissa is the fifth moon in distance from Neptune.
		Triton is the seventh moon from Neptune and is the largest of the planet’s moons, measuring 2,700 km (1,700 mi) in diameter.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761577112___5/Neptune_(planet).html (527 words)

	Neptune: Moons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In August of that year Voyager 2 provided evidence of 6 more moons, including confirmation of a tiny moon (Larissa) which had been hinted at by a chance star occultation in 1981.
		Nereid is a small moon that orbits Neptune in an extremely unusual orbit.
		It is the most eccentric orbit of any planet or moon in the solar system, at its farthest distance being almost 8 times as far from Neptune as its closest approach.
	www.space.com /reference/neptune/moons.html (1070 words)

	The Solar System
		For that reason most of It's moons were not discovered until 1989 when NASA sent a satellite to explore the world.
		Naiad is the closest moon to the surface of Neptune.
		In Greek Mythology Despina is the daughter of Neptune and Demeter.
	kidsastronomy.com /neptune/moons.htm (443 words)

	Space Today Online - Moons of the Solar System
		The Moon is one of the larger natural satellites with a diameter of 2,160 miles.
		The moons are 120,000 miles and 131,000 miles from the center of planet Saturn between the moons Mimas and Enceladus.
		The smallest moon is Deimos, at Mars, only seven miles in diameter, although its size now is rivaled by the small shepherd moons discovered by Cassini at Saturn and by others yet to be counted and named in the rings around Jupiter, Saturn and other giant gas planets in the outer Solar System.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Moons/MoonsSolSys.html (1335 words)

	The Planets - Neptune
		Proteus is the second-largest moon of Neptune after Triton, and is the largest irregular moon in the solar system.
		The moon was named for a group of fifty sea nymphs who were daughters of the Greek god Nereus and his wife, Doris.
		Larissa is the fifth known moon from the planet.
	www.hostultra.com /~starchives/planets/neptune.html (2063 words)

	Neptune: Despina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Despina is the third closest moon to Neptune, and was discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989.
		It orbits Neptune at a distance of 52,600 kilometers, and has a diameter of 148 kilometers.
		In Greek Mythology, Despina was the nympth daughter of Poseidon, or Neptune.
	www30.brinkster.com /gaatash/nav_despina.htm (44 words)

	Natural_satellite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Mercury and Venus have no moons at all, Earth has one large moon ("The Moon"), Mars has two tiny moons, and Pluto a large companion called Charon (sometimes considered to be a double planet).
		Several moons are thought to be captured foreign objects, fragments of larger moons shattered by large impacts, or (in the case of Earth's Moon) a portion of the planet itself blasted into orbit by a large impact.
		In addition to the moons of the various planets there are also over 30 known asteroid moons, asteroids that orbit other asteroids.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Natural_satellite (442 words)

	Larissa (moon) - Slider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Larissa (la-ris'-a, Greek Λάπισσα) is the fifth of Neptune's known moons.
		It was first discovered by Harold Reitsema based on ground-based stellar occultation observations in 1981, and given the temporary designation S/1981 N 1.
		The moon was not recovered until the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989 when it received the designation S/1989 N 2.
	enc.slider.com /Enc/Larissa_%28moon%29 (130 words)

	On This and Other Moons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		If the sizes of the moons are expressed relative to their primary (the planet they orbit) there are still more surprises.
		Being close to Jupiter (it is the innermost of the Galilean moons) the planet's massive gravity stretches the moon by some 100m and locks its rotation so the same side always faces the planet.
		When it was discovered in 1978 it was realised that images previously thought to be of just Pluto had actually represented both the planet and its huge moon, and estimates of the planet's size had to be revised downwards.
	www.inconstantmoon.com /cyc_moon.htm (1127 words)

	Natural satellite
		Mercury and Venus have no moons at all, Earth has one large moon, Mars has two tiny moons, and Pluto a large companion called Charon (sometimes considered to be a double planet).
		Most moons in the solar system are tidally locked to their primaries; an exception is Saturn's moon Hyperion, which rotates chaotically due to a variety of external influences.
		The largest moons in the solar system (those bigger than about 3000 km across) are Earth's Moon, Jupiter's Galilean moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, Saturn's moon Titan, and Neptune's captured moon Triton.
	www.fastload.org /na/Natural_satellite.html (369 words)

	The Angular Size of the Moon and Other Planetary Satellites: An Argument For Design
		For instance, the ratio of the moon's apparent diameter to that of the sun is 0.9719.
		An annular eclipse is one in which the moon is too small to completely cover the sun, so that a thin ring, or annulus, of the sun's photosphere remains visible at mid eclipse.
		This was caused by the moon's proximity to perigee at the time, giving it a slightly larger apparent size, covering those features first on the west limb, and then on the east limb.
	www.creationresearch.org /cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/35/astrodesign.html (2845 words)

	The Despina Cognitive Model of Arithmatic: Jim Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Despina was written to evaluate SIRRINE2 as a cognitive architecture.
		The name Despia was taken from one of the smaller moons of Neptune.
		The moon was named after a nymph, the daughter of Poseidon (Neptune) and Demeter.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /~jimmyd/research/despina (61 words)

	Moons
		Their shape reflects their formation history, irregular objects are ill-formed moons or pieces of a larger moon, spherical objects were once molten spheres, probably at the time of their formation.
		Hyperion is one of the smaller moons of Saturn.
		Mimas is one of the innermost moons of Saturn with a very large impact crater that came close to fracturing the moon
	zebu.uoregon.edu /~js/ast121/lectures/lec17.html (608 words)

	Neptune's Moons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Kids Astronomy; Neptune's Moons - Even though this website was updated in 2004, it neglected to mention the discoveries of 5 moons since then.
		Neptune's Moons - Neptune's moons is a frequently updated site, which is important for such a topic because 5 new moons have been discovered in the last three years.
		Moons of Neptune - This website talks about Neptune's eight moons that were discovered around 1989.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listneptuneju.html (1034 words)

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		TRITON: Triton, the largest of Neptune's moons (almost the size of earth's moon) that circles the planet in a retrograde direction which is the direction opposite to the rotation of the planet it's orbiting, at a steeply inclined orbit of 157 degrees.
		Scientists do not know how this moon could have this sort of activity, but they guess it could be duw to the sun penetrating through Triton's transparent surface and melting the ice from below, thereby causing a local pressure build-up of gas.
		This is because it is spinning in the wrong direction and this fact, when combined with that of the moon's strong tidal interaction with Neptune, the moon's orbit is slowly decaying.
	patlabor2.tripod.com /moons.html (538 words)

	Exploring the Solar System -- Moons
		Earth's Moon is one of the larger natural satellites with a diameter of 2,160 miles.
		Saturn's moon Titan, shown at left in a Voyager 2 photo, is the second largest moon in the Solar System with a diameter of 3,200 miles.
		The smallest moon is Deimos, one of two moons of Mars.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/ExploringSolarSystem/ExploringMoons.html (280 words)

	Neptune
		It has eight moons, six of which were found by Voyager.
		The rings are made up of dust particles thought to have been made by tiny meteorites smashing into Neptune's moons.
		From ground based telescopes the rings appear to be arcs but from Voyager 2 the arcs turned out to be bright spots or clumps in the ring system.
	www.iki.rssi.ru /solar/eng/neptune.htm (1449 words)

	Planet Neptune Moons: Despina
		Despina is moon V of the planet Neptune.
		For a listing of other moons, see Moons of the planets.
		This moon is too faint to be viewed in any telescopes.
	www.go-astronomy.com /planets/neptune-moon-despina.htm (39 words)

	EIS: Moons of the Solar System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Most of the moons are thought to have formed from a disk of debris left over from formation of the planets they orbit.
		Earth's Moon is thought to have formed from the debris ejected from a roughly Mars-sized object colliding with the early Earth, perhaps a unique event in the history of the Solar System.
		The moons are organized on the poster by the planet they orbit (top to bottom, with increasing distance from the Sun) and their position relative to the planet (left to right, with increasing distance from the planet).
	www.agu.org /sci_soc/eis/9710/eismoons.html (333 words)

	Neptune's Moons - EnchantedLearning.com
		The moon Triton is the coldest measured object in our Solar System, and Nereid is the Solar System object with the most eccentric orbit.
		This rocky moon has a polar ice cap at its south pole and many other varied geologic features including volcanoes, huge cracks in the surface, and geysers of gaseous nitrogen.
		It is the smaller of Neptune's 2 larger moons.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/planets/neptune/neptunemoons.shtml (357 words)

	Neptune's Moon: Despina
		Discovered in 1989 by Voyager 2 photographs, Despina is an oddly shaped satellite with a rather calm history (without too many violent geological upheavals common to many other satellites).
		Despina also rotates in the same direction Neptune orbits.
		Number of days to make one complete rotation.
	library.thinkquest.org /28327/html/universe/solar_system/planets/neptune/moons/despina.html (66 words)

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		Sun, Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Asteroids, Comets
	www.solarviews.com /eng/toc.htm (358 words)

	The Nine Planets Solar System Tour
		It's actually pretty easy to make a simple but powerful telescope.
		This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system.
		Each page has my text and NASA's images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
	www.nineplanets.org (526 words)

	Greek Lyrics of Singers and Artists from Greece by Endless Greece Travel Guide
		If you see the moon Lyrics : Marinella
		Thelo Na Se Do Lyrics : Despina Vandi
		You called me bum one night Lyrics : Sotiria Bellou
	artists.endless-greece.com /lyrics (193 words)

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