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The next-largest satellite in the Solar System suspected to be captured, Saturn's moon Phoebe, has only 0.03% of Triton's mass. The capture of Triton, probably occurring some time after Neptune formed a satellite system, was a catastrophic event for Neptune's original satellites, disrupting their orbits so that they collided to form a rubble disc.
Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune. It is the only moon of Neptune massive enough to be rounded under its own gravity and hosts a thin, hazy atmosphere. Triton orbits Neptune in a retrograde orbit—revolving in the opposite direction to the parent planet's rotation—the only large moon in the Solar System to do so.
Neptune also has seven known inner regular satellites, and eight outer irregular satellites. Pluto , a dwarf planet , has five moons . Its largest moon Charon , named after the ferryman who took souls across the River Styx , is more than half as large as Pluto itself, and large enough to orbit a point outside Pluto's surface.
The seven largest natural satellites in the Solar System (those bigger than 2,500 km across) are Jupiter's Galilean moons (Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa), Saturn's moon Titan, Earth's moon, and Neptune's captured natural satellite Triton. Triton, the smallest of these, has more mass than all smaller natural satellites together.
These lists contain the Sun, the planets, dwarf planets, many of the larger small Solar System bodies (which includes the asteroids), all named natural satellites, and a number of smaller objects of historical or scientific interest, such as comets and near-Earth objects.
Neptune. Rings of Neptune; Complete list of Neptune's natural satellites. Proteus; Triton; Nereid; Neptune trojans; Neptune-crossing minor planets; Non-trojan minor planets. Centaurs; Damocloids; Trans-Neptunian objects (beyond the orbit of Neptune) Kuiper-belt objects (KBOs) Plutinos. Orcus, a dwarf planet. Vanth; Pluto, a dwarf planet
Neso / ˈ n iː s oʊ /, also known as Neptune XIII, is the second-outermost known natural satellite of Neptune, after S/2021 N 1.It is a retrograde irregular moon discovered by Matthew J. Holman, Brett J. Gladman, et al. on 14 August 2002, though it went unnoticed until 2003.
Naiad / ˈ n eɪ ə d /, (also known as Neptune III and previously designated as S/1989 N 6) named after the naiads of Greek legend, [10] is the innermost satellite of Neptune and the nearest to the center of any gas giant with moons with a distance of 48,224 km from the planet's center. Its orbital period is less than a Neptunian day ...