Neptune’s Moons Are Acting Weird

Their names are Naiad and Thalassa, and they’re being accused by NASA of acting weird.

Who are they? Why they are Neptune’s moons and appear to race around their planet in what NASA researchers are calling a “dance of avoidance”.

According to researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “there are many different types of dances that planets, moons, and asteroids can follow, but this one has never been seen before.”

Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/neptune-s-moons-are-caught-in-one-of-the-weirdest-orbits-ever-seen

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