Ellis D. Miner
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Space Scientist (retired), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Author of Uranus: The Planet, Rings, and Satellites; coauthor of Neptune: The Planet, Rings, and Satellites.
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Nereid, third largest known moon of Neptune and the second to be discovered. It was detected photographically by the Dutch American astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper in 1949. It is named after the numerous daughters, called Nereids, of the sea god Nereus in Greek mythology. Nereid has a diameter of…
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