You can look up Saturn and Neptune in wikipedia and get all the information you need there.
2007-01-16 01:20:33
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answered by Land Warrior 4
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Saturn has a large number of moons. The precise figure is uncertain as the orbiting chunks of ice in Saturn's rings are all technically moons, and it is difficult to draw a distinction between a large ring particle and a tiny moon. As of 2006, a total of 56 individual moons have been identified, many of them quite small.
Titan, Rhea, Iapetus, and Dione are the largest.
Neptune has 13 known moons. The largest by far, and the only one massive enough to be spheroidal, is Triton.
2007-01-16 08:01:58
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answered by gebobs 6
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Saturn is currently known to have 56 moons, many of which were discovered very recently, and 3 additional un-confirmed, hypothetical moons.
Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janis, and Mimas are just a few of Saturns moons.
Neptune has 13 known moons. The largest by far, and the only one massive enough to be spheroidal, is Triton.
The rest of the information you can get from Wikipedia.
2007-01-16 09:44:30
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answered by K H 2
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Saturn:
It is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant (also known as a Jovian planet, after the planet Jupiter), the second-largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter.
Saturn has a large number of moons. The precise figure is uncertain as the orbiting chunks of ice in Saturn's rings are all technically moons, and it is difficult to draw a distinction between a large ring particle and a tiny moon. As of 2006, a total of 56 individual moons have been identified, many of them quite small. Seven of the moons are massive enough to have collapsed into spheroids under their own gravitation. These are compared to Earth's moon in the table below. Saturn's most noteworthy moon is Titan, the only moon in the solar system to have a dense atmosphere.Traditionally, most of Saturn's other moons are named after actual Titans of Greek mythology. This started because John Herschel — son of William Herschel, discoverer of Mimas and Enceladus — suggested doing so in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope,because they were the sisters and brothers of Cronos (the Greek Saturn). and some more are:
1. Mimas
2. Enceladus
3. Tethys
4. Dione
5. Rhea
6. Titan
7. Lapetus.
Neptune:
it is the eighth planet in our solar system. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass; Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near twin Uranus, which is 14 Earth Masses, but slightly smaller due to its higher density. The planet is named after the Roman god of the sea.
Neptune has 13 known moons. The largest by far, and the only one massive enough to be spheroidal, is Triton, discovered by William Lassell just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself. Unlike all other large planetary moons, Triton has a retrograde orbit, indicating that it was captured, and probably represents a large example of a Kuiper Belt object (although clearly no longer in the Kuiper Belt). It is close enough to Neptune to be locked into a synchronous orbit, and is slowly spiraling inward and eventually will be torn apart when it reaches the Roche limit. Triton is the coldest object that has been measured in the solar system, with temperatures of 38.15K (-235°C, -392°F).
Neptune's second known satellite, the irregular moon Nereid, has one of the most eccentric orbits of any satellite in the solar system.
From July to September 1989, Voyager 2 discovered six new Neptunian moons. Of these, the irregularly shaped Proteus is notable for being as large as a body of its density can be without being pulled into a spherical shape by its own gravity. Although the second most massive Neptunian moon, it is only one quarter of one percent of the mass of Triton. Neptune's innermost four moons, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, and Galatea, orbit close enough to be within Neptune's rings. The next farthest out, Larissa was originally discovered in 1981 when it had occulted a star. This was attributed to ring arcs, but when Voyager 2 observed Neptune in 1989, it was found to have been caused by the moon. Five new irregular moons discovered between 2002 and 2003 were announced in 2004.As Neptune was the Roman god of the sea, the planet's moons have been named after lesser sea gods.
2007-01-18 03:49:50
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answered by Rags 2
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y do u bother abt other planets moons 1/st u study abt ur own moon.
2007-01-16 08:10:33
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answered by thundercope5 3
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2 moons.neptune dont have any.
2007-01-16 08:12:00
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answered by shubha M 1
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please ask only complete questions
2007-01-16 08:02:31
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answered by hulchul 3
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