The Almanac

October 10

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 1846

    Neptune's big moon Triton is found

    Just seventeen days after Neptune itself was discovered, the English astronomer William Lassell spotted a large moon circling it, later named Triton. It turned out to be one of the strangest moons in the solar system, orbiting backward and, we would learn much later, spouting geysers of nitrogen from a frozen surface.

    Source: Wikipedia

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