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  Encyclopedia topic: Larissa (moon)
Larissa (la-ris'-a, Greek Λάπισσα) is the fifth of Neptune (A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun) 's known moon (Any natural satellite of a planet) s.
Larissa is irregular (non-spherical) in shape and appears to be heavily crater (A bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb) ed, with no sign of any geological modification.
Larissa is also an asteroid (Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)), 1162 Larissa, and there is also the paronym (additional info and facts about paronym) ous asteroid 302 Clarissa (additional info and facts about 302 Clarissa).
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 Larissa (moon) - RecipeFacts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Larissa is also an asteroid, 1162 Larissa, and there is also the paronymous asteroid 302 Clarissa.
Larissa (la-ris'-a, Greek Λάρῑσα) is the fifth of Neptune's known moons.
The moon was not recovered until the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989 when it received the designation S/1989 N 2.
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 Larissa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Larissa (Greek: Λάρισα, Lárisa, (Turkish: Yenişehr-i Fenar) is the capital city of the Thessaly periphery of Greece, and capital of the Larissa Prefecture.
Larissa was the headquarters of Ali Pasha during the Greek War of Independence, and of the crown prince Constantine during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
Larissa Chasma on Dione, an important location in Roman History when Greece was part of the Roman Empire during ancient times.
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 Encyclopedia: Larissa (moon)
Larissa is the fifth known moon from the planet.
Larissa's orbit is circular and parallels Neptune's equator.
Larissa was first detected in 1981 by a number of astronomers around the world who set up their instruments to watch Neptune pass in front of a distant star.
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 Neptune's Moon Larissa
Larissa [LA-ree-suh] is only about 48,800 kilometers (30,300 miles) from Neptune's clouds, and circles the planet in 13 hours, 18 minutes.
Larissa circles the planet in the same direction as Neptune rotates, and remains close to Neptune's equatorial plane.
This image of Larissa was acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on August 24, 1989.
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 Tour of the Solar System: Other Neptunian Moons
These moons are extremely small, and most were not discovered until the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in 1989.
Larissa is irregularly shaped and appears to have a heavily cratered surface.
Larissa orbits Neptune in the same direction as the planet rotates, and remains close to the planet's equatorial plane.
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 Larissa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Larissa ("LA ree suh") is the fifth of Neptune's known satellites:
Harold Reitsema is now usually credited with the discovery of Larissa by ground-based stellar occultation observations.
Like Proteus, Larissa is irregular (non-spherical) in shape and appears to be heavily cratered.
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 MSN Encarta - Neptune (planet)
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.
Scientists discovered another moon, Larissa, in 1981 when the moon occulted (moved in front of) a star, and they discovered five more moons of Neptune from images transmitted to Earth by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
Larissa is the fifth moon in distance from Neptune.
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 Encyclopedia: Triton (moon)
The pink hue of Neptune's largest moon, Triton, is thought to result from a slowly evaporating layer of nitrogen ice.
Triton is an oddity among moons in that its orbit is highly tilted to the plane of Neptune's equator, and it is in a retrograde orbit.
moon, discovered by William Lassell in 1846 just 17 days after the planet itself was discovered (Lassell incorrectly believed that he had also seen a ring around Neptune).
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 Space Today Online - Solar System - Exploring Neptune - Moons
Triton, Jupiter's moon Io and the planet Venus are the only bodies in the Solar System outside of Earth that are known to be volcanically active at the present time.
Larissa is an irregularly shaped, dark object about 130 miles long by 112 miles wide.
Larissa appears to have several craters from 19 to 31 miles across.
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 Neptune: Moons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
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.
Larissa is a very small moon that orbits quite close to Neptune, only 30,000 miles about Neptune’s cloud tops.
Larissa is irregularly shaped and is covered with impact craters.
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.
Nereid is the outermost of Neptune's moons, and the third largest.
www.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.
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 Encyclopedia: Galatea (moon)
Galatea (gal'-a-tee'-a, Greek Γαλατεία) is the fourth known moon of Neptune, named after Galatea, one of the Nereids of Greek legend.
Categories: Neptune's moons A moon of Neptune, Naiad (NYE ad [UK, US] or NAY ad [US]) is named after the Naiads of Greek legend.
Despina (dess PEE na or dess PYE na) is the third known moon of Neptune.
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 Larissa (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was first discovered by Harold J. Reitsema, William B. Hubbard, Larry A. Lebofsky and David J. Tholen based on ground-based stellar occultation observations on May 24, 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.
Stephen P. Synnott announced (IAUC 4824) its recovery on August 2, 1989, speaking only of “10 frames taken over 5 days”, which gives a discovery date of sometime before July 28.
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 * Larissa - (Astronomy): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Larissa is a satellite of the planet Neptune.
Compared with the satellites of other planets of the solar system, Larissa is a large Moon with a diameter of 208(X 178) km and an unknown mass.
On their way to Argolis, Perseus and Andromeda stopped off at Larissa so that Perseus could compete in the games that the king of that land was holding, for Perseus had already won great renown as a discus thrower,...
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 On This and Other Moons
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.
But nearby moons Europa and Ganymede peturb it when they pass, making the tidal bulges shift and heating the Io's interior with the friction of the flexing.
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 Neptune: Larissa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Larissa is the fifth moon from Neptune, and was discovered by Harold Reitsema in 1989.
It orbits 73,600 kilometers from Neptune, and has a diameter of 193 kilometers.
In Greek Mythology, Larissa was the daughter of Pelasgus.
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 LARISSA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Alternative meanings: Larissa in mythology was a daughter of Pelasgus; Larrissa is a moon of Neptune; 1162 Larissa is an asteroid.
Larissa or Larisa is the capital city of the Thessaly periphery of Greece, and capital of the Larissa prefecture.
It is a main agricultural centre and a transportation hub, linked by rail with the port of Volos and with Thessaloniki and Athens.
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 Articles - Neptune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Neptune's largest moon, Triton, is notable for its retrograde orbit, extreme cold (38K), and extremely tenuous (14 microbar) nitrogen/methane atmosphere.
The next farthest out, Larissa was originally discovered in 1981 when it had blocked a star.
In the anime Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (1992), Sailor Neptune is the soldier representing the planet.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Larissa (astronomy)
The moon orbits Neptune at a distance of...
Lárisa, also Larissa, city in eastern Greece, capital of Lárisa Department.
The city lies in the heart of the wide and fertile plain of Thessaly,...
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 rissapage
Aristotle used the curved shadow of the Earth upon the Moon during an eclipse to verify that the Earth was round.
A great advancement in the study of the Moon occurred in 1609 when Galileo Galilei sketched the first details of the surface of the Moon observed with a homemade telescope (Moons and Rings 1991, 10).
The physical laws that govern the orbit of the Moon about the Earth are kinetic energy, momentum, gravity and angular momentum.
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 Forever Art Tattoo & Body Piercing: Larissa
Larissa (la-REE-suh), the city, one of the oldest and richest in Greece, is said to have been founded by Acrisius, who was killed accidentally by his son,
In the neighbourhood of Larissa, a religious festival celebrated in Rome and the provinces called Saturnalia took place.
But whenever the moon broke through the shifting clouds, you could see exhausted opponents talking.
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Larissa Zhao, who spent most of the year as the world's fastest over 800 meters, capped her season with a commanding win and the first major title of her...
Larissa Cundy, Chelsea Grimson, Melanie Masson, and captain Pamela Parker are all in their fifth and final year of eligibility, while fourth-year players...
Larissa Founts scored a team-high 15 points and Anjelica Dill-James scored nine of her 11 points in the fourth quarter as East Union High slowly pulled away...
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 Neptune
It has eight moons, six of which were found by Voyager.
Triton [TRY-tun] is the largest moon of Neptune, with a diameter of 2,700 kilometers (1,680 miles).
The photos show that the moon's surface reflects about 14 percent of the sunlight that strikes it, making it somewhat more reflective than Earth's Moon, and more than twice as reflective as Proteus.
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Larissa The seat of a titular archbishopric of Thessaly.
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Larissa is the fifth of Neptune 's known moonss.
It was discovered by Harold Reitsema based on ground-based stellar occultation obser...
Larissa is the fifth of Neptune's known moonss.
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 Larissa (moon)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Larissa (or Larisa) is the fifth of Neptune 's known moons.
It was discoveredby Harold Reitsema based on ground-based stellar occultationobservations, and was photographed by Voyager 2 in 1989.
Since its orbit is belowNeptune's synchronous orbit radius it is slowly decaying due to tidal forces and will one day break up into a planetary ring or impact on Neptune'ssurface.
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 Encyclopedia: Neptune (planet)
The argument of the perihelion is one of the orbital elements describing the orbit of a planet.
It possesses eight confirmed moons and five awaiting confirmation, the largest of which, Triton, is known for its subzero temperatures and methane production.
The Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched in 1977, originally planned as Mariner 12 of the Mariner program.
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