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Nereid
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Nereid was discovered in 1949 by astronomer Gerard Kuiper. Nereid is about 340 Km (210 miles) in diameter and is so far from Neptune that it requires 360 days to make one orbit. Voyager's best photos of Nereid were taken from about 4,7 MKM (about 2,9 MMs). The photos show that the moon's surface reflects about 14% of the sunlight that strikes it, making it somewhat more reflective than Earth's Moon and more than twice as reflective as Proteus. Nereid's orbit is the most eccentric in the Solar System. Its distance to Neptune ranges from about 1.353.600 Km (about 841.100 miles) to 9.623.700 Km (such as about 5.980.200 miles).
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