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Triton: Neptune's Captured Moon

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LASSELL
William Lassell was a self-taught British astronomer and brewer who ground his own telescope mirrors; he discovered Triton on October 10, 1846, barely over two weeks after Neptune was first identified.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
RETROGRADE
Triton is one of the very few large moons in the solar system with a retrograde orbit, it travels around Neptune in the opposite direction to the planet's rotation, a strong sign it was captured rather than born in place.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
GEYSER
When Voyager 2 flew past Triton in 1989, its cameras caught active geysers shooting nitrogen gas several miles into the moon's thin atmosphere, the first geysers ever observed beyond Earth.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TRITON
Named for the son of Poseidon in Greek mythology, fitting company for Neptune, the Roman sea god, Triton is larger than the dwarf planet Pluto and is slowly spiraling inward toward Neptune.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Neptune moon Triton word search, playable online now. Lassell found this backward-orbiting moon in 1846, just 17 days after Neptune was confirmed.

About Triton: Neptune's Captured Moon

On October 10, 1846, just 17 days after Neptune itself was identified, British astronomer William Lassell spotted a faint companion circling the planet and named it Triton. The moon turned out to be one of the most remarkable objects in the outer solar system: a frigid, nitrogen-frosted world whose orbit runs backward against Neptune's spin, hinting at a violent gravitational capture long ago. Triton's surface crackles with geysers of nitrogen gas, erupting into a near-vacuum sky under the faint, distant light of the sun.

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