Laomedeia

Laomedeia — moon orbiting Neptune, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

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A faint moon about 23 million km from Neptune, taking almost 9 years per lap on a tilted, stretched orbit. It travels the same way Neptune does around the Sun, and belongs to the Sao group of related moons.

Radius

~14.5 km

Orbit

23.5 million km from Neptune

Period

8.7 years

Discovered

2002 — Holman, Kavelaars, Grav and colleagues, Chile

Orbit shape

Forwards, tilted ~37° and stretched; the Sun’s pull keeps changing it

Family

Sao group, with Sao and S/2002 N5

Size

About 29 km across, estimated from its brightness

Explore Laomedeia in 3D

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