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How Neptune may have captured Triton, Nature (May 11, 2006)
volcanopele
post May 10 2006, 07:21 PM
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Neptune's capture of its moon Triton in a binary–planet gravitational encounter
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/...ature04792.html

More can also be read at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060510/sc_...ecapturedtriton

This model suggests that at one point, Triton was part of a binary system, similar to that seen with Pluto and Charon. The pair made a close pass of Neptune, where Neptune's gravity disrupted the pair, and Triton was captured by Neptune.


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post May 16 2006, 07:13 PM
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Good call - perhaps a handfull of pixels smile.gif

Then again - even one pixel is better than nothing biggrin.gif

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- volcanopele   How Neptune may have captured Triton   May 10 2006, 07:21 PM
- - ljk4-1   And the Space.com take on the story, complete with...   May 10 2006, 08:50 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   It's quite a logical theory -- a neat variatio...   May 10 2006, 09:40 PM
- - Rob Pinnegar   Well, we may not be able to tell which of them is ...   May 11 2006, 02:30 AM
- - Richard Trigaux   Another hypothesis could come from the recent disc...   May 11 2006, 09:02 AM
- - Rob Pinnegar   This is at least the second time you've mentio...   May 11 2006, 01:11 PM
- - alan   I believet this is what he is referring toQUOTE St...   May 11 2006, 02:58 PM
|- - Richard Trigaux   Thanks, Alan, you saved me: I don't remember w...   May 11 2006, 05:19 PM
|- - Planet X   My buddy, Michael C. Emmert, at Gravity Simulator ...   May 11 2006, 07:27 PM
|- - tedstryk   Great News! HST mapped Triton with ACS in 200...   May 16 2006, 11:56 AM
- - djellison   http://archive.eso.org/preview/preview/pre...1F1Q/...   May 16 2006, 12:11 PM
|- - um3k   QUOTE (djellison @ May 16 2006, 08:11 AM)...   May 16 2006, 05:17 PM
|- - tedstryk   Flynn et. al did some good mapping work with the F...   May 17 2006, 01:13 AM
- - djellison   Good call - perhaps a handfull of pixels Then ag...   May 16 2006, 07:13 PM

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